Word: boleslav
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, Feb. 18, mentions the apostolic administrator for the Russian dioceses of Mo-hilev and Minsk, His Excellency Bishop Boleslav Sloskans, as "either dead or in Siberia...
Fifty-six of the bishops and monsignori are in Eastern Europe. In Russia, Rumania, Albania and the Baltic countries (now part of the Soviet Union), the hierarchy has been virtually wiped out. In the other Iron Curtain countries, it has been badly crippled. Russian Bishop Boleslav Sloskans, imprisoned since 1927, is either dead or in Siberia. The Lithuanian bishop of Kaisedorys and the Estonian apostolic administrator have been sent to Siberia. One Hungarian bishop, the Vatican announced, "has probably died" in a concentration camp. In Yugoslavia, Titoist but still Communist, one bishop is in jail, two (including Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac...