After several years as a seminary instructor, in 1908 he became the auxiliary bishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev and titular bishop of Evaria.
It was erected as a diocese in 1772 by the empress Catherine the Great, in a unilateral action independent of Rome.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden also included Finland between 1783 and 1809 (then passed to Mohilev Archdiocese), the southern areas of Norway between 1834 and 1868 (thereafter Apostolic Prefecture of Norway), whereas Norway north of the polar circle formed part of Sweden vicariate from 1834 to 1855, then becoming the Apostolic Prefecture of the North Pole.
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