Diocese of Tver

Diocese of Tver and Kashin

Resurrection Cathedral in Tver, September 2010
Location
Headquarters Tver
Information
Denomination Eastern Orthodox
Sui iuris church Russian Orthodox Church
Established 1271
Language Old Church Slavonic
Governance Eparchy
Website
tvereparhia.ru

The Diocese of Tver and Kashin (Russian: Тверская и Кашинская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tver Oblast, and is one of the oldest dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.

History

The Tver diocese separated from the Polotsk diocese at the Grand Prince Yaroslav Yaroslavich no later than 1271. In 1589, it installed Archdiocese.

Until 1928, it was called the Diocese of Tver and Kashin, from 1928 to 1943 and from 1950 to 1990, it was the Kalinin and Kashinskaya diocese, from 1943 to 1944 - Diocese of Smolensk and Kalinin, from 1944 to 1950 - Kalinin and Velikolukskaya Diocese, and then the Diocese of Tver and Kashin again in 1990. In December 28, 2011 from the Tver diocese marked Bezhetskaya and Rzhevskaya diocese, within the Tver region formed Diocese of Tver, which includes Bezhetskaya, Rzhev and Tver diocese.[1]

Former titles

Tver (1271)

Former Bishops

References

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