Mukachevo and Uzhgorod diocese

The Mukachevo diocese was founded in 940 on the initiative of the patriarch of Constantinople Theophylact. In the 14th century, the Lithuanian-Russian prince Fyodor Koryatovich moved to Ugric Rus, and, having received the inheritance of the Mukachevo principality, he assisted the Mukachevo St. Nicholas Monastery . Since then, the Mukachevo bishops settled here, and the monastery became the focus of the spiritual life of the region.

After the death of King Karl Robert in 1342, the Uzhgorod dominy passed into the possession of the Roman Catholic Philip Druget . Hard times have come for the Orthodox population of Transcarpathia, the Orthodox Church has lost its rights. In these years, apparently, the diocese depended on the metropolitans of the Ugro-Vlachian. In 1596, the Brest Union began to be introduced here, however, the Mukachevo bishops took an active part in the preservation of Orthodoxy in the region. On April 24, 1646, 63 priests in the church of Uzhgorod Castle in the presence of the Jaeger Catholic Bishop signed the Union of Uzhgorod . According to her, the Mukachevo bishops were to be approved by the Roman Curia, and the Uniate clergy were granted all the rights and privileges of the Roman Catholic. Most Orthodox clergy did not support the union that only 63 out of 690 priests of the Mukachevo diocese signed the agreement. In connection with the transition of the region to the union, the Orthodox bishop Methodius (Rakovetsky) moved his chair to Marmarosh in 1690 , and the last Orthodox Mukachevo-Marmaroshsky bishop Dosipheus was tortured in Khust castle in 1735 . Monasteries and temples were transferred to the Greek Catholics (Uniates). In fact, the Orthodox Church was outlawed by the authorities. Relocation to the union made it possible to preserve the Church Slavonic language and the Byzantine rite in the church.

Only at the beginning of the 20th century did a movement for the restoration of the Orthodox faith arise. The Austro-Hungarian authorities in every possible way prevented its distribution and organized persecution. In 1903 - 1904, the first Marmarosh-Sighet process was organized, at which seven Orthodox confessors were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. In the second half of 1913, 32 people were already arrested for conversion to Orthodoxy. The second Marmarosh-Sighet process ended on March 3, 1914 with an open condemnation of those who converted to Orthodoxy exclusively for religious beliefs.

At the end of the First World War and with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Transcarpathia became part of Czechoslovakia as an autonomous part of the republic. Its constitution proclaimed freedom of religion, and the local population massively returned to Orthodoxy. In 1920, the president of Czechoslovakia obtained the recognition of the authority of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Transcarpathia, after which, according to the Council of Bishops of the Serbian Church, he decided to send the bishop of Nis Dosifey to Czechoslovakia. The charter of the new Church was worked out, and for its approval by the central authorities, Bishop Dosipheus was sent to Prague, where the Second Council of the Czechoslovak Church was held on August 28-29, 1921 . The successors of Bishop Dosifei also bore the titles of Serbian dioceses, and in 1930 the bishop Joseph of Bitola was appointed bishop already with the title of exarch of Carpathian Rus . On August 2, 1931, he restored the Mukachevo pulpit, and in the same year the Serbian Church received the right to appoint the ruling bishop with the title Mukachevsky and Pryashevsky for permanent service.

After the liberation of Transcarpathia by the Soviet army in 1944, it soon followed its accession to the USSR , after which, by mutual agreement between the Russian and Serbian Orthodox Churches, fixed at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on October 22, 1945 , the Mukachevo diocese as part of the lands that entered the USSR , came under the omophorion of the Moscow Patriarch. The Slovak part of the Mukachevo diocese, which remained part of Czechoslovakia, entered the Czech diocese .

In the Soviet period, in the Mukachevo diocese, a struggle was conducted under the leadership of the authorities against the Uniates, who did not want to observe the rites of the Russian Orthodox Church. For example, during a conversation with Bishop Savva on November 23, 1982, First Deputy Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR P. D. Pilipenko emphasized: "The global issue in Transcarpathia is the fight against uniatism."

By the decision of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of July 29, 1994, the Khust-Vinogradov diocese was allocated from the Mukachevo diocese.

Nowadays, the Mukachevo diocese unites parishes and monasteries on the territory of the Beregovsky , Velikobereznyansky , Volovetsky , Irshavsky , Mukachevsky , Perechinsky , Svalyavsky , Uzhgorod districts of the Transcarpathian region. The cathedral city of the diocese is Mukachevo , which houses the cathedral of the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God. As part of the diocese for 2000 there were 160 parishes, 6 monasteries:

• Vvedensky Nunnery, founded in 2002, Transcarpathian region., Irshava district, s. Kushnitsa;
• St. John the Baptist Monastery, Transcarpathian region., Irshava district, s. Dubrovka
• Kazan Icon of the Mother of God Monastery, in the process of organization. Transcarpathian region, Volovetsky district, with. Tishev;
• Cyril and Methodius Convent , founded in 1996, Transcarpathian region., Svalyava;
• Mukachevsky in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Convent , Transcarpathian region., Mukachevo, st. North, 2;
• Pokrovsky Monastery, founded in 2002, Transcarpathian region, Mukachevo district, s. Russian;
• Seraphim of Sarov Monastery, founded in the 1920s. as male, converted to female in 1939, abolished in con. 1950s, resumed in 1990, Transcarpathian region, Irshava district, s. Priborzhevskoe;
• Assumption convent , founded in 1932, closed in 1959, renewed in 1993, Transcarpathian region, Mukachevo district, s. Domboks.

• Hierofei (mentioned 940)
• John (c. 1491, 1498)
• Basil (Vladislav) (1551-1552)
• Hilarion (Hilarion) (1556-1559)
• Euthymius (1561-1567)
• Amphilochius (1569, 1596)
• Basil (1597)
• Sergius (1601-1616)
• Sofronius (1616)
• Hilarion
• Euthymius (Eutyches) (1618)
• Petronius (Uniate?) (February 10, 1623-1626)
• John (Gregorovich) (January 12, 1627-1633)
• Vasily (Tarasovich) (October 16, 1633 - May 14, 1642)
• Porfiry (Arden) (1640-1643), Bishop. Munkachsky
• Sofroniy (Yusko) , Romanian (1646), Bishop. Munkachsky
• Vasily (Tarasovich) (until August 1648)
• Peter / Parfeny (Petrovich-Ratoshinsky) (September 1648–1649)
• Ioannikiy (Zeykan) (1652 - November 8, 1686)
• Theophanes (Mavrokordato) (1677), Archbishop of Ugric Rus
• Methodius (Rakovetsky) (1687–1692) [8]
• Joseph (Stand) (1692-1711) [9]
• Dosifei (Feodorovich) (1711-1734 (1735))

• 1735- (1920) 1931 cut short

Exarch of Carpathian Rus

• Dosipheus (Vasich) (1920-1921), Bishop of Nis
• Irenaeus (Chirich) (1923-1930), Bishop of Novosad
• Seraphim (Jovanovic) (1930), Bishop of Prizren
• Joseph (Tsviyovich) (1930-1931), Bishop of Bitola

Mukachevo and Pryashevskaya diocese

• Damascene (Grdanichki) (November 30, 1931 - June 22, 1938)
• Vladimir (Raich) (October 30, 1938 - October 22, 1945)

Mukachevo and Uzhgorod diocese

• Nestor (Sidoruk) (October 22, 1945 - June 3, 1948), Bishop of Uman
• Macarius (Oksiyuk) (June 3, 1948 - March 17, 1950), Archbishop of Lviv
• Hilarion (Kochergin) (March 17, 1950 - September 5, 1956) until July 22, 1950, bishop Umansky
• Varlaam (Borisevich) (September 5, 1956 - July 5, 1961)
• Nikolai (Kutepov) (September 10, 1961 - October 9, 1963)
• Joseph (Savrash) (October 9 - November 9, 1963), bishop Ivano-Frankivsk
• Bogolep (Antsukh) (November 9, 1963 - February 5, 1965)
• Gregory (Zakalyak) (February 5, 1965 - March 18, 1977)
• Savva (Babinets) (March 18, 1977 - June 26, 1985)
• Damascene (Peppy) (June 26, 1985 - July 1, 1989)
• Euthymius (Shutak) (August 28, 1989 - January 19, 2000)
• Agapit (Bevcik) (July 26, 2000 - December 14, 2007)
• Mark (Petrovtsy) (December 14-23, 2007), Bishop of Khust
• Theodore (Mamasuev) (since December 23, 2007)

• Mukachevo and Uzhgorod diocese // Patriarchy.Ru
• http://www.mykachevo.eparchia.net/ Official site of the diocese
• Orthodox Church in Transcarpathia
• Monasteries of the Mukachevo Diocese - Synodal Commission of the UOC for Monastery Affairs
• Google Map: Monasteries of the Mukachevo Diocese - Synodal Commission of the UOC for Monasteries