Diocese of Vologda and Veliky Ustyug

Diocese of Vologda and Veliky Ustyug

Former Cathedrals of the Vologda Diocese. From left to right: Resurrection Cathedral, bell tower of St. Sophia Cathedral. In the background, the Bishops yard with churches
Location
Headquarters Vologda
Information
Denomination Eastern Orthodox
Sui iuris church Russian Orthodox Church
Established 1556
Language Old Church Slavonic
Governance Eparchy
Website
vologda-mitropolia.ru

Diocese of Vologda and Veliky Ustyug (Russian: Вологодская и Великоустюжская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church.

History

Prior to the establishment of the Vologda diocese of north-western region of her was part of the Novgorod diocese, and the south and the east - in the Rostov diocese.[1] In 1492, the Archbishop of Novgorod Gennady gave the Perm diocese, Vologda, and the bishops were called Perm and Vologda. By order of the cathedral in 1589 the department was transferred to Vologda, and the bishops were called Vologda and Velikopermskimi.[1]

In the last decades of the eighteenth century the boundaries of dioceses have been aligned with the boundaries of the provinces. Several areas of the Vologda epaohii caught in Kostroma, Tver, Novgorod, Arkhangelsk Oblast, dioceses have moved accordingly.

Modern borders took shape after the formation of the diocese in 1937 and the restoration of the Vologda region in 1945 (after the Great Terror of 1937-1938) of the diocesan administration.

Former names

Vologda and Velikopermskaya (from 1556) Vologda and Beloezerskaya (since December 1657) Velikoustyuzhsk and Totemskoe (from summer 1682) Vologda (since March 1787) Vologda and Veliky (since 06/05/1788) Vologda and Totemskoe (since 01/30/1888) Vologda and Cherepovets (1945) Vologda and Veliky Usyug (since 1965)

List of Bishops

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Вологодская епархия // Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона: В 86 томах (82 т. и 4 доп.). — СПб., 1890—1907.
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