Diocese of Kaluga Калужская епархия | |
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Location | |
Deaneries | 11 |
Headquarters | Kaluga |
Information | |
Denomination | Eastern Orthodox |
Sui iuris church | Russian Orthodox Church |
Established | 16 October 1799 |
Cathedral | Trinity Cathedral |
Language | Church Slavonic |
Current leadership | |
Governance | Eparchy |
Bishop |
Kliment (Kapalin) since 1990 |
Website | |
eparhia-kaluga |
The Diocese of Kaluga ( Russian: Калужская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is a part of the Don Archdiocese, founded in 2011 and consists of various parishes and monasteries in Kaluga Oblast.
Established October 16, 1799; Previously, the territory was mainly part of the Krutitsa Diocese ( Russian: Крутицкая епархия).
After the Second World War, the number of churches in the diocese reached 25. [1] During a new repression wave on the Church, which started in 1958 number of churches and monasteries in the eparchy were closed. [2] Registration of parish communities resumed only in 1988, the year of the millennium of the Baptism of Rus'. At the beginning of 2010, the diocese had 186 active parishes, 6 monasteries, and 2 monasteries. In addition, on the territory of the diocese, there are two stauropegial monasteries: Optina Hermitage and Kazan Amvrosievskaya Hermitage.
On October 2, 2013, the independent Diocese of Kozelsk and Diocese of Pesochensk were separated from the Kaluga Diocese, all three dioceses became part of the newly formed Kaluga Metropolis. The parishes of Duminichsky, Zhizdrinsky, Kozelsky, Lyudinovsky, Sukhinichsky, Ulyanovsky, Khvastovichsky, Baryatinsky and Yukhnovsky districts were removed from the Kaluga diocese. [3]
By order of the Metropolitan of the Kaluga Diocese on November 12, 2013 (No. 178), deaneries were formed in the territory of the diocese, and the following deans were appointed:
8th district (Medyn deanery): Medynsky district. Dean - Priest Alexander Zemtsov; 9th district (Przemysl deanery): Przemysl district. Dean - Priest Dionysius Dobrov; 10th district (Babyninsky deanery): Babyninsky and Meshchovsky districts. The dean is Archpriest Sergius Yanin.
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