The Brest and Kobrin diocese ( Belorussian. Berestsky and Kobryn diocese ) is the diocese of the Belarusian Orthodox Church in the territory of the Berezovsky , Brest , Drogichinsky , Zhabinkovsky , Kamenets , Kobrin , Maloritsky and Pruzhany districts of the Brest region .
| Brest and Kobrin diocese | |
|---|---|
| Belarusian Orthodox Church | |
 Holy Simeon Cathedral | |
| General information | |
| A country | Belarus |
| Diocesan Center | Brest |
| Founded by | March 6, 1839 , March 1941, January 31, 1990 |
| Abolished | 1900 , 1948 |
| Control | |
| Ruling bishop | Archbishop of Brest and Kobrin John (Homa) (since October 7, 2002 ) |
| Cathedral Church | Holy Simeon Cathedral |
| Second Cathedral Church | Holy Alexander Nevsky Cathedral |
| Statistics | |
| Deanery | 9 |
| Monasteries | 4 (+ 1 skeet) |
| Site | brest.hram.by |
| Map | |
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Cathedral city - Brest , cathedrals - Simeon Stolpnik ( Brest ), Alexander Nevsky ( Kobrin ). Established in 1990 .
Counts (2005): 167 parishes ; 181 clergyman (165 priests , 16 deacons ).
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History
The Brest Orthodox Diocese was founded on March 6, 1839. On January 22, 1840, the Brest Department was made a vicar of the Vilnius Diocese . The Brest vicars were appointed until 1900, when an independent Grodno was allocated from the Lithuanian diocese, and Brest also entered its lands.
By decree of the Moscow Patriarchate No. 161 of March 28, 1941, the Brest region was transferred to the Grodno diocese and the department of the bishop of Brest, vicar of the Grodno diocese was established [1] .
After the liberation of Belarus from German troops in 1944, an independent Brest diocese was established. In 1948, the Brest Diocese was abolished and entered the Grodno Diocese, and in 1952 - the Diocese of Minsk.
The diocese was revived on January 31, 1990 as an independent, being separated from the Pinskaya within the western part of the Brest region .
Bishops
- Diocese of Brest
- Anthony (Zubko) (March 6, 1839 - January 28, 1840)
- Brest Vicariate of the Vilnius Diocese
- Mikhail (Golubovich) (January 28, 1840 - March 1, 1848)
- Ignatius (Zhelezovsky) (May 20, 1848 - June 27, 1870)
- Eugene (Sheresilov) (August 9, 1870 - February 10, 1875)
- Vladimir (Nikolsky) (March 16, 1875 - May 16, 1877)
- Iannuarius (Popov-Ascension) (June 5, 1877 - February 17, 1879)
- Donat (Babinsky-Sokolov) (May 27, 1879 - May 14, 1881)
- Abraham (Letnitsky) (June 27, 1881 - March 9, 1885)
- Anastasius (Opotsky) (May 15, 1885 - November 17, 1891)
- Joseph (Sokolov) (December 15, 1891 - May 24, 1897)
- Joachim (Levitsky) (May 24, 1897 - January 13, 1900)
- Brest Vicariate of the Grodno Diocese
- Benedict (Bobkovsky) (March 30, 1941 - April 1942)
- John (Lavrinenko) (April 30, 1942 - 1944)
- Diocese of Brest
- Paisius (Samples) (September 8, 1944 - February 27, 1945)
- Onisifor (Ponomarev) (February 27 - October 1945)
- Vasily (Ratmirov) (1946) high school , Archbishop of Minsk
- Paisiy (Obraztsov) (June 3, 1948 - December 13, 1949) from November 18, 1948 - high, b. Grodno
- Pitirim (Sviridov) (December 13, 1949 - March 17, 1950) w / u, Met. Minsk
- Sergius (Larin) (March 17, 1950 - February 1, 1951) high school, bishop Grodno
- Pitirim (Sviridov) (January 13, 1951 - April 21, 1959) w / u, Met. Minsk
- Guri (Egorov) (May 21, 1959 - September 19, 1960) high / low, met. Minsk
- Leonty (Bondar) (September 19, 1960 - March 16, 1961) high school, ep. Bobruisk
- Anthony (Krotevich) (March 16 - July 5, 1961) military unit, met. Minsk
- Varlaam (Borisevich) (July 5, 1961 - August 4, 1963) high school, met. Minsk
- Nicodemus (Rotov) (August 4 - October 9, 1963) w / u, Met. Minsk
- Sergius (Petrov) (October 9, 1963 - May 25, 1965) military unit, met. Minsk
- Anthony (Melnikov) (May 25, 1965 - October 10, 1978) high school, met. Minsk
- Filaret (Vakhromeev) (October 10, 1978 - January 31, 1990) Minsk
- Konstantin (Khomich) (February 19, 1990 - September 19, 2000)
- Filaret (Vakhromeev) (September 19, 2000 - February 4, 2001) Minsk
- Sofroniy (Yushchuk) (February 4, 2001 - October 7, 2002)
- John (Homa) (since October 7, 2002)
Dean Districts
- Berezovsky
- Brest city
- Brest district
- Drogichinsky
- Zhabinkovsky
- Kamenetsky
- Kobrin
- Malorite
- Pruzhany
Monasteries
- Holy Athanasiev Brest Monastery
- Brest Monastery in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Brest, Brest Fortress, Hospital Island)
- Khmelevsky Transfiguration Monastery
Notes
- ↑ Tsymbal A.G. The situation of the Orthodox Church in Western Belarus in 1939-1941 // Western Belarus and Western Ukraine in 1939-1941: people, events, documents. - SPb. : Aletheia, 2011 .-- S. 341.