When, in 1905, Tsar Nicholas II published a decree granting freedom of religion, as many as 230,000[6] Belarusians wanted union with Rome. However, since the government refused to allow them to form a Byzantine-Rite community, they adopted the Latin Rite, to which most Belarusian Catholics now belong.
忘了说一下,白俄罗斯人改信拉丁礼天主教是从1905年才开始的,1839年至1905年的几十年时间里,所有的白俄罗斯人理论上都信奉东正教。