Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk diocese

• Caucasian and Black Sea (July 17, 1842 - July 30, 1867)
• Caucasian and Yekaterinodar (July 30, 1867 - March 8, 1886)
• Stavropol and Yekaterinodar (March 8, 1886 - October 5, 1916)
• Caucasian and Stavropol (October 5, 1916-1922)
• Stavropol and Kuban (1922-1934)
• Stavropol and Don (1935-1943)
• Stavropol and Pyatigorsk (1943-1945)
• Stavropol and Baku (1945-1994)
• Stavropol and Vladikavkaz (1994—2011)
• Stavropol and Nevinnomysskaya (since March 22, 2011)

The diocese was separated from the Astrakhan diocese in 1842 and was then called the Caucasus and Black Sea. By the time of the opening of the diocese (the first bishop - Jeremiah (Soloviev) ) in the Caucasus region there were 126 churches and 180 counts, and in Chernomory 66 churches and 96 counts. For less than a ten-year stay at the department, a theological seminary was organized (1846), the construction of temples was launched.

January 13 (1), 1873, the first issue of the "Caucasian Diocesan Gazette" was published ^[1] . From 1886 to 1918 came out as "Stavropol diocesan sheets" ^[2] .

Under the last pre-revolutionary bishop, Metropolitan Agafador (Preobrazhensky) (at the department from 1893 to 1919), missionary work among the peoples of the North Caucasus developed especially; while he was in Stavropol in May 1919, the South Russian Cathedral took place, at which the Provisional Higher Church Administration of the South-East of Russia was formed (later formed as the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ).

In the 1920s and 1930s, most of the churches in the diocese were destroyed or taken away from believers; only one Assumption Church remained in Stavropol, while until 1917 there were more than twenty Orthodox churches in the city with a population of 45 thousand people. From 1936 to 1943 the diocese did not exist.

The post-war revival of church life in the diocese is associated with the name of Metropolitan Anthony (Romanovsky, at the department in 1943-1962). Part of the churches was reopened, the Stavropol Theological Seminary was recreated. On January 1, 1957 in the Stavropol Territory (then it included part of modern Kalmykia ) there were 129 churches and prayer houses, in which 147 priests served ^[3] .

After 1988, the number of parishes in the diocese increased four times; the Stavropol Theological Seminary was revived, Orthodox secondary schools and schools, kindergartens were opened; the revival took place in the bishopric of Metropolitan Gideon (Dokukin), who was put on the 1991 chair.

On December 28, 1998, the territory of Dagestan and Azerbaijan entered the then restored Baku and Caspian diocese .

In 2011, Kabardino-Balkaria , Karachay-Cherkessia and the three southern regions of the Stavropol Territory were transferred to the Pyatigorsk Diocese , Ingushetia , North Ossetia , the Chechen Republic at the same time were transferred to the Vladikavkaz Diocese .

• Jeremiah (Soloviev) (January 1, 1843 - November 20, 1849)
• Ioannikii (Samples) (November 20, 1849 - October 30, 1857)
• Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (November 13, 1857 - August 5, 1861)
• Theophylact (Gubin) (December 1, 1862 - May 11, 1872)
• German (Osetskiy) (June 24, 1872 - February 16, 1886)
• Vladimir (Petrov) (April 8, 1886 - November 25, 1889)
• Eugene (Sheresilov) (December 16, 1889 - July 17, 1893)
• Agafodor (Preobrazhensky) (July 17, 1893 - July 31, 1919)
• Mikhail (Kosmodemyansky) (May 10 - September 1, 1914, 1919-1923) for the first time - high school, bishop. Alexandrovsky
• Dimitri (Dobroserdov) (April 26 - June 1923)
• Eusebius (Christmas) (1923)
• Innocent (Letyaev) (October 28, 1923 - August 20, 1926)
• Irinarkh (Sineokov-Andreevsky) (October - December 1926)
• Innocent (Hawks) (1926-1927)
• Arseny (Smolenets) (November 1 - November 25, 1927)
• Seraphim (Meshcheryakov) (January 28, 1928 - May 7, 1933)
• Leo (Cherepanov) (August 24, 1933-1934)
• Anthony (Romanovsky) (1935-1936) high school, bishop b. Donskoy
• Anthony (Romanovsky) (September 27, 1943 - November 7, 1962)
• Victor (Svyatin) (November 7 - 16, 1962) military unit, met. Krasnodar
• Mikhail (Chub) (November 16, 1962 - February 27, 1968)
• Jonah (Zyryanov) (February 27, 1968 - July 1, 1975)
• Anthony (Zavgorodny) (August 3, 1975 - December 4, 1989)
• Gideon (Dokukin) (January 26, 1990 - March 21, 2003)
• Isidor (Kirichenko) (December 26, 2002 - May 7, 2003) in the metro. Ekaterinodar
• Feofan (Ashurkov) (May 7, 2003 - March 22, 2011)
• Cyril (Pokrovsky) (since March 22, 2011)

• Alexandrovskoe (invalid)
• Arzgirskoe (invalid)
• Armavir (now an independent diocese)
• Baku (now an independent diocese)
• Yeisk (now an independent diocese)
• Mikhailovskoye (there was no ordination)
• Mozdok (invalid)
• Pyatigorsk (now an independent diocese)

Divided into 15 deaneries:

• First Stavropol Deanery - Archpriest Vasily Arkhipov
• Second Stavropol Deanery - Archpriest Alexander Dubovik
• Third Stavropol Deanery - Archpriest Pavel Samoilenko
• Don Deanery - Priest Anastasiy Akinin
• Grachevsky deanery - archpriest Sergiy Grinev
• Divensk Deanery - Archpriest George Chekrygin
• Izobilnensk Deanery - Archpriest Sergius Rybin
• Ipatov Deanery - Archpriest Michael Leshchina
• Holguin Deanery - Archpriest Evgeny Piperkov
• Medvezhensky deanery - Priest George Olkhovik
• Mikhailov Deanery - Archpriest Igor Podositnikov
• Nevinnomyssk Deanery - Archpriest John Mozdor
• Novoaleksandrovsky deanery - Priest Nikolay Guleiko
• Svetlograd Deanery - Archpriest John Leshchina
• Kursavian deanery - archpriest Vyacheslav Bocharov

The ruling bishop is Metropolitan Kirill (Pokrovsky) (since March 22, 2011).

Cathedral Church - Kazan Cathedral.

The second cathedral - the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary - is located in Nevinnomyssk .

• St. John the Mariinsky Monastery (female, Stavropol)
• Monastery in the name of the Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary “All Who Sorrow Joy” (male; village of Tatarka )
• A monastery in the name of the holy supreme apostles Peter and Paul (male; city of Svetlograd , hegumen hieromonk Cyril (Nikitin); resolution of the Holy Synod of 26.2.2019 ^[4] ).

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  Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the city of Svetlograd

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  St. Nicholas Church in Kugult

• Diocese website
• The Stavropol and Vladikavkaz diocese on the website of the Patriarchy.Ru