List of cathedrals of Russia

The list of cathedrals of Russia includes temple buildings located on the territory of the Russian Federation and belonging to Christian denominations ( Russian Orthodox Church , Old Believer Churches , Roman Catholic Church , Armenian Apostolic Church and Evangelical Lutheran Church ). Comments on each denomination are in the corresponding section.

A number of large temples are known as “cathedrals” - because of their size or historical significance, but if there has never been a bishop’s chair , they will be included in a separate list.

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Russian Orthodox Church

Acting Cathedrals

By default, the list is sorted by the name of the dioceses, all other columns also have the function of sorting alphabetically.

Cathedral	Dedicated to	Diocese	City	Comment
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Abakan and Khakass Diocese	Abakan
Cathedral of the Nativity	Nativity	Alexandrov and Yuryev-Polish Diocese	Alexandrov
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Anadyr and Chukot Diocese	Anadyr
Ilyinsky Cathedral	The prophet Elijah	Diocese of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory	Arkhangelsk
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Astrakhan and Kamyzyak eparchy	Astrakhan
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Diocese of Barnaul	Barnaul
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Belgorod and Starooskolsky Diocese	Belgorod
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Biya Diocese	Biysk
Blagoveshchensky cathedral	Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos	Birobidzhan and Kuldur Diocese	Birobidzhan
Blagoveshchensky cathedral	Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos	Annunciation and Tynda Diocese	Blagoveshchensk
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Bryansk and Sevsky Diocese	Bryansk
Nikolsky Cathedral	Nicholas the Wonderworker	Vladivostok and Seaside Diocese	Vladivostok	Cathedral since 1991, earlier (from 1907 to 1927 and from 1976 to 1991) Church of the Icon of the Mother of God " Joy of All Who Sorrow " in memory of the soldiers who died in the n-Japanese war of 1904-1905. ^[1] .
Transfiguration Cathedral ^[2]	Transfiguration	Vladivostok and Seaside Diocese	Vladivostok	built in 2012
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Vladimir and Suzdal Diocese	Vladimir
Kazan Cathedral	Kazan Icon of Our Lady	Volgograd Diocese	Volgograd
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin	Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Diocese of Vologda and Veliky Ustyuzh	Vologda
Blagoveshchensky cathedral	Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos	Voronezh and Borisoglebsk Diocese	Voronezh
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Vyborg Diocese	Vyborg
Holy Assumption Cathedral ^[3]	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Vyatka and Sloboda Diocese	Kirov
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Dzhankoyskaya and Razdolnenskaya diocese	Jankoy
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk Diocese	Yekaterinburg
St. John the Baptist Cathedral	John the Baptist	Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk Diocese	Yekaterinburg
Nikolsky Cathedral	St Nicholas	Yeysk Diocese	Yeisk
Catherine's Cathedral ^[4]	St. Catherine	Ekaterinodar and Kuban Diocese	Krasnodar
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Ivanovo-Voznesenskaya and Kineshma Diocese	Ivanovo
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral	Alexander Nevskiy	Izhevsk and Udmurt Diocese	Izhevsk
Znamenskaya church	Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos	Irkutsk and Angara Diocese	Irkutsk
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Irkutsk and Angara Diocese	Angarsk	second cathedral
Ascension Cathedral ^[5]	The Ascension of the Lord	Yoshkar-Ola and Mari Diocese	Yoshkar-Ola
St. Nicholas Cathedral ^[6]	St Nicholas	Kazan Diocese	Kazan
Cathedral of Christ the Savior	The Resurrection of Christ , Savior the Arms	Kaliningrad and Baltic Diocese	Kaliningrad
Holy Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Kansk and Boguchan Diocese	Kansk
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Kaluga and Borovsk diocese	Kaluga
Epiphany Cathedral	Epiphany	Kostroma and Galich Diocese	Kostroma
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Krasnoyarsk and Yenisei Diocese	Krasnoyarsk
St. Nicholas Cathedral	Nicholas the Wonderworker	Kudymkar Diocese	Kudymkar
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral	Saint Alexander Nevsky	Kurgan and Shadrinsk Diocese	Mound
Sergiev Kazan Cathedral	Kazan Icon of Our Lady Saint Sergius	Kursk and Rila Diocese	Kursk
Nativity Cathedral	Nativity	Lipetsk and Zadon Diocese	Lipetsk
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Magadan and Sinegorsk Diocese	Magadan
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Maikop and Adygea Diocese	Maykop
Holy Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Makhachkala Diocese	Makhachkala
St. Nicholas Cathedral ^[7]	St Nicholas	Diocese of Melekess	Dimitrovgrad
Christ the Savior Cathedral	The Nativity of Christ , Transfiguration	Moscow Diocese	Moscow
Epiphany Cathedral	Epiphany	Moscow Diocese	Moscow	The traditional name - Yelokhovsky Cathedral
Ascension Cathedral Trifon Pechengsky ^[8]	Trifon Pechengsky	Murmansk and Monchegorsk diocese	Monchegorsk
St. Nicholas Cathedral ^[9]	St Nicholas	Murmansk and Monchegorsk diocese	Murmansk
Alexander Nevsky Novoyemarmarnochny Cathedral ^[10]	Alexander Nevskiy	Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Diocese	Nizhny Novgorod
Sophia Cathedral	Sophia the Wisdom of God	Novgorod and Old Russian Diocese	Velikiy Novgorod
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Novokuznetsk Diocese	Novokuznetsk
Ascension Cathedral	The Ascension of the Lord	Novosibirsk and Berd Diocese	Novosibirsk
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Novosibirsk and Berd Diocese	Berdsk	Second Cathedral Diocese
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Omsk and Tauride Diocese	Omsk
Nikolsky Cathedral	St Nicholas	Diocese of Orenburg and Saraktash	Orenburg
Akhtyrsky Cathedral	Akhtyrskaya Icon of Our Lady	Oryol and Liven Diocese	Eagle
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Penza and Nizhnelomovsk diocese	Penza
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Perm and Solikamsk Diocese	Permian
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral	Alexander Nevskiy	Petrozavodsk and Karelian Diocese	Petrozavodsk
Nikolsky Cathedral	St Nicholas	Petropavlovsk and Kamchatka Diocese	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	a new cathedral is being built
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Pskov and Velikie Luki Diocese	Pskov
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin	Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Rostov and Novocherkassk Diocese	Rostov-on-Don
Ascension Military Cathedral	The Ascension of the Lord	Rostov and Novocherkassk Diocese	Novocherkassk	The Second Cathedral and the Main Church of the Don Cossacks
Nativity Cathedral	Nativity	Ryazan and Mikhailovsky Diocese	Ryazan
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Ryazan and Mikhailovsky Diocese	Ryazan	summer cathedral
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Samara Diocese	Samara
Kazan Cathedral	in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God	Syzran Diocese	Sizran
Kazan Cathedral	Kazan Icon of Our Lady	St. Petersburg and Ladoga Metropolis	St. Petersburg
Cathedral of St. Theodore Ushakov	Feodor Ushakov	Saransk and Mordovia Diocese	Saransk	consecrated on August 6, 2006
Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Saratov and Volsk diocese	Saratov
St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral	archangel Michael	Serdobsk diocese	Serdobsk
Holy Resurrection-Germanovsky Cathedral ^[11]	Memory of the renewal (consecration) of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Jerusalem (Resurrection is Spoken)	Simbirsk and Novospassky Diocese	Ulyanovsk	Spaso-Ascension Cathedral is being built
Peter and Paul Cathedral	Saints Peter and Paul	Simferopol and Crimean Diocese	Simferopol
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Diocese of Smolensk and Vyazma	Smolensk
Kazan Cathedral		Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk diocese	Stavropol
Cathedral of Stephen of Perm	Stefan Perm	Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryan Diocese	Syktyvkar
Bogolyubsky Cathedral ^[12]		Michurin Diocese	Michurinsk
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Tambov and Rasskazovskaya Diocese	Tambov
Resurrection Cathedral	Resurrection of Christ	Tver and Kashin Diocese	Tver
Znamensky Cathedral ^[13]		Tobolsk and Tyumen Diocese	Tyumen
St. Sophia Cathedral of the Assumption ^[14]		Tobolsk and Tyumen Diocese	Tobolsk
Epiphany Cathedral ^[15]	Epiphany	Tomsk and Asinovsk diocese	Tomsk
All Saints Cathedral		Tula and Efremov Diocese	Tula
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Tula and Efremov Diocese	Tula
Odigitrievsky Cathedral		Ulan-Ude and Buryat Diocese	Ulan-Ude
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin	Nativity of the Virgin	Ufa and Sterlitamak diocese	Ufa
Kazan Cathedral	Kazan Icon of the Mother of God	Theodosia and Kerch Diocese	Theodosius
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Khabarovsk and Amur Diocese	Khabarovsk
Vvedensky Cathedral	Introduction to the Temple of the Blessed Virgin	Cheboksary and Chuvash Diocese	Cheboksary
St. Simeon Cathedral	Simeon Verkhotursky	Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust Diocese	Chelyabinsk
Kazan Cathedral	Kazan Icon of the Mother of God	Chita and Krasnokamensk diocese	Chita
Holy Trinity Cathedral	The Holy Trinity	Shchigrovsky Diocese	Shchigry
Kazan Cathedral	Kazan Icon of the Mother of God	Elista and Kalmyk Diocese	Elista
Resurrection Cathedral	Resurrection of Christ	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Kuril Diocese	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	second cathedral
Cathedral of the Nativity	Nativity	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Kuril Diocese	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Yakut and Lena Diocese	Yakutsk
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Diocese of Yaroslavl and Rostov	Rostov	The second cathedral of the diocese, until 1786 - the main one.
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Diocese of Yaroslavl and Rostov	Yaroslavl	Consecrated in 2010. Built on a new project on the site of the demolished cathedral of the same name in the middle of the XVII century.
Cathedral of the Archangel Michael	archangel Michael	Ekaterinodar Diocese	Sochi	Center of the Sochi deanery. Founded in 1890.

Former cathedrals

Cathedral	Dedicated to	Diocese	City	Comment
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Astrakhan Diocese	Astrakhan	From 1710 to 1923 was the cathedral diocesan cathedral.
Sophia Cathedral	Sophia the Wisdom of God	Diocese of Vologda and Veliky Ustyuzh	Vologda
Resurrection Cathedral	Resurrection of Christ	Diocese of Vologda and Veliky Ustyuzh	Vologda
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Voronezh and Borisoglebsk Diocese	Voronezh
Savior Church	Savior, the Arms	Irkutsk and Nerchinsk, Irkutsk and Angara Diocese	Irkutsk	Department of Vicariate of the Tobolsk Metropolis from 1706 to 1746 .
Epiphany Cathedral	Epiphany	Irkutsk and Angara Diocese	Irkutsk	Cathedral from 1746 to 1894 .
Kazan Cathedral	Kazan Icon of the Mother of God	Irkutsk and Angara Diocese	Irkutsk	The cathedral from 1894 to 1920 .
Holy Cross Church	Exaltation of the Cross	Irkutsk and Angara Diocese	Irkutsk	Performed the functions of the Cathedral in the periods of the Soviet time: 1929 - 1936 and 1948 - 1991
Seraphim Cathedral	Serafim Sarovsky	Vyatka and Sloboda Diocese	Kirov	1942 - 1991
Savior Transfiguration Cathedral of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin	Transfiguration	Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Diocese	Nizhny Novgorod	It was the main cathedral of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese until 1918 . It was destroyed in 1929-1930 .
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Diocese	Nizhny Novgorod	The traditional naming is the Spassky Old Fairs Cathedral. He was a cathedral until 2009.
Savior Transfiguration Cathedral (Perm)	Transfiguration	Perm and Kungur Diocese	Permian	From 1820 to 1933 was the cathedral diocesan cathedral. Now it is Perm State Art Gallery.
Holy Spirit Cathedral	The Descent of the Holy Spirit	Olonets and Petrozavodsk diocese	Petrozavodsk	1872 - 1930
Borisoglebsky Cathedral	Saints Boris and Gleb	Ryazan Diocese	Ryazan
Peter and Paul Cathedral	Saints Peter and Paul	St. Petersburg Diocese	St. Petersburg	1742 - 1858 years
Saint Isaac's Cathedral	Isaac Dalmatian	St. Petersburg Diocese	St. Petersburg	1858 - 1923 years
Resurrection Cathedral	Resurrection of Christ	St. Petersburg Diocese	St. Petersburg	1923 - 1930 years . Everyday name - Savior-on-the-Blood
St. Vladimir's Cathedral	Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir	St. Petersburg Diocese	St. Petersburg	1938 - 1941 years . Everyday name - Prince Vladimir Cathedral
Nikolsky Cathedral	Epiphany, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker	St. Petersburg Diocese	St. Petersburg	1941 - 1999 years . Everyday name - Nikolo-Epiphany Naval Cathedral
Spiritual Cathedral	The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles	Saratov and Volsk diocese	Saratov	From 2001 to 2014 was the main cathedral.
St. Andrew's Cathedral		Stavropol Diocese	Stavropol
Trinity Church	Trinity	Ufa and Sterlitamak diocese	Ufa	1579-1842 years
Kazan Cathedral	Kazan Icon of the Mother of God	Diocese of Orenburg and Buzuluk	Orenburg	1894-1932 years
Resurrection Cathedral	Resurrection of Christ	Ufa and Sterlitamak diocese	Ufa	1842-1931 years
St. Sergius Cathedral	Sergius of Radonezh	Ufa and Sterlitamak diocese	Ufa	1931-1991
Church of Nikola Pensky	St Nicholas	Diocese of Yaroslavl and Rostov	Yaroslavl	In Soviet times - until 1987.
Nativity Cathedral	Nativity	Orenburg Diocese , Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust Diocese	Chelyabinsk	Cathedral from 1914 to 1931 (destroyed in 1932).
Theodore Cathedral	Theodore Icon of the Mother of God	Diocese of Yaroslavl and Rostov	Yaroslavl	1987—2010

Old Believers

The list does not include the churches of the bespopovtsy , including those called conciliar (for example, the Cathedral Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at the Transfiguration Cemetery ), since this denomination has no episcopate.

Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church

Cathedral	Dedicated to	Diocese	City	Comment
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Moscow Metropolis	Moscow
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Don and Caucasian Diocese	Rostov-on-Don
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Khabarovsk and the entire Far East Diocese	Khabarovsk
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Holy Virgin	Kazan and Vyatka Diocese	Kazan
Cathedral of the Transfiguration	Transfiguration	Diocese of Yaroslavl-Kostroma	Kostroma
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Cathedral	Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Novosibirsk and All Siberia Diocese	Novosibirsk
Assumption Cathedral	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Nizhny Novgorod-Vladimir Diocese	Nizhny Novgorod
Bogoroditsko-Assumption Church	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Nizhny Novgorod-Vladimir Diocese	Vladimir	Second Cathedral
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	St. Petersburg and Tver Diocese	St. Petersburg
Cathedral of St. Stephen of Perm	St. Stephen of Perm	Ural Diocese	Permian

Russian Old Orthodox Church

Cathedral	Dedicated to	Diocese	City	Comment
Pokrovsky Cathedral	Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos	Moscow Diocese	Moscow
Transfiguration Cathedral	Transfiguration	Moscow Diocese	Novozybkov	former cathedral
Church of the Nativity of Christ	Nativity	Siberian Diocese	Ulan-Ude

Roman Catholic Church

Cathedral	Dedicated to	Diocese	City	Comment
Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God	Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God	Diocese of St. Joseph in Irkutsk	Irkutsk	built in 1999 - 2000
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Moscow)	Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow	Moscow	built in the years 1901-1911
Cathedral of the Transfiguration	Transfiguration	Transfiguration Diocese in Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk	built in 1992-1997
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	before closing - Mogilev archdiocese , now the Mother of God Archdiocese in Moscow	St. Petersburg	built in 1870-1873, closed in 1930, after the return of the Church did not receive the status of a cathedral
Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul	Saints Peter and Paul	Diocese of St. Clement in Saratov	Saratov	built in 1995-2000
Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin	Holy Mother of God	Diocese of Vladivostok (1923–1991)	Vladivostok	built in the years 1909-1921

Evangelical Lutheran Church

On the territory of modern Russia there were no buildings with the status of a Lutheran cathedral, with two exceptions: the cathedral in Konigsberg (at that time the territory of Germany ) and the cathedrals in Vyborg (the Grand Duchy of Finland ). At present, the buildings where the bishops' offices of ELKRAS , ELTSER and ELTSI are located are also sometimes called cathedrals ^[16]

Cathedral	Dedicated to	Diocese	City	Comment
Königsberg Cathedral		ELCER	Kaliningrad	Former cathedral. Now there is only a chapel
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul	Saints Peter and Paul	Elkras	St. Petersburg	Archbishop Elkras Chair
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul	Saints Peter and Paul	ELCER	Moscow	Department of Bishop ELCER
St. Mary's Church	Holy mary	ELCI ^[17]	St. Petersburg
Old Cathedral (Vyborg)	Holy Mary , Holy Olaf	Diocese of Vyborg (Lutheran)	Vyborg	ruined
New Cathedral (Vyborg)		Diocese of Vyborg (Lutheran)	Vyborg	ruined

Armenian Apostolic Church

Cathedral	Dedicated to	Diocese	City	Comment
Holy Cross Cathedral	Holy Cross	Novo-Nakhichevan and Russian Diocese	Moscow	Built in 1996—2013
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist	John the Theologian	Diocese of South Russia AAC	Krasnodar	Built in 1997
St. Sergius Cathedral	Sarkis	North Caucasian Vicariate of the AAC	Sochi	Built in 1998

Notes

St. Nicholas Cathedral (inaccessible link) // Donskoy Monastery website
↑ Transfiguration Cathedral
↑ Vyatka diocese website (inaccessible link)
Official website of St. Catherine’s Cathedral
↑ Yoshkar-Ola Diocese of the MP
↑ Diocese website
↑ St. Nicholas Cathedral, Dimitrovgrad
↑ Ascension Cathedral
↑ St. Nicholas Cathedral
↑ The Primate of the Russian Church blessed to assign the status of a cathedral to the Alexander Nevsky Church of Nizhny Novgorod / News / Patriarchy.ru
↑ Simbirsk and Novospassky Diocese: Parishes Archival copy dated August 12, 2014 on the Wayback Machine .
↑ Pilgrimage sites of the Tambov diocese. (Undefeated) (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is September 9, 2009. Archived September 27, 2009.
↑ city of Tyumen. Znamensky Cathedral
↑ city of Tobolsk. Sofia Assumption Cathedral
↑ Orthodoxy in Tomsk
↑ Structure of the centralized religious organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
↑ St.Petersburg

Links

Cathedrals. Folk catalog of Orthodox architecture

[1] St. Nicholas Cathedral (inaccessible link) // Donskoy Monastery website

[2] Transfiguration Cathedral

[3] Vyatka diocese website (inaccessible link)

[4] Official website of St. Catherine’s Cathedral

[5] Yoshkar-Ola Diocese of the MP

[6] Diocese website

[7] St. Nicholas Cathedral, Dimitrovgrad

[8] Ascension Cathedral

[9] St. Nicholas Cathedral

[10] The Primate of the Russian Church blessed to assign the status of a cathedral to the Alexander Nevsky Church of Nizhny Novgorod / News / Patriarchy.ru

[11] Simbirsk and Novospassky Diocese: Parishes Archival copy dated August 12, 2014 on the Wayback Machine .

[12] Pilgrimage sites of the Tambov diocese. (Undefeated) (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is September 9, 2009. Archived September 27, 2009.

[13] ty of Tyumen. Znamensky Cathedral

[14] ty of Tobolsk. Sofia Assumption Cathedral

[15] Orthodoxy in Tomsk

[16] Structure of the centralized religious organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

[17] St.Petersburg