Instead, the country forms an apostolic administration.

An appreciation of apostolic administrations remained in contrary to the wishes of the East German government.

The diocese was erected in 1973 as the apostolic administration of Erfurt-Meiningen, and was elevated in 1994 to the current diocese of Erfurt.

On Kaller's instigation the seat of the apostolic administration had been moved from Tütz (Tuczno) to Schneidemühl on 1 July 1926.

An apostolic administrator in the Roman Catholic Church is a prelate appointed by the Pope to serve as the ordinary for an apostolic administration.

In August 2008, there were the following stable apostolic administrations, each administered by a bishop.

The Holy See suspended the jurisdictions of both dioceses over their parishes in the Free State and established an exempt apostolic administration for the territory in 1922.

Jesuit Bishop Nikolaus Messmer is the current head of the apostolic administration that covers the whole country.

There are no dioceses but the whole of the country forms an apostolic administration.

The archdiocesan territory then located in the then German Democratic Republic became a separate entity as an exempt apostolic administration.