Novgorod-Seversky Vicariate is the Vicariate of the Chernigov Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate .
History
The diocese in Novgorod-Seversky was mentioned in the 16th century, when at the Brest Cathedral in 1596 , the bishop of Novgorod-Seversky John (Lezhaysky) , who had a pulpit in the Novgorod-Seversky Transfiguration Monastery, remained faithful to Orthodoxy, refusing to sign the union, for which he endured the Archpriest assured of the Council. Stradomsky, "dishonor."
March 27, 1785 Novgorod-Seversky Department was revived as an independent, being separated from Chernihiv . On July 27 of that year, the diocese was abolished, but then the decision was changed. October 16, 1799 it was again abolished, and its land returned to the Chernigov department.
On August 21, 1868, the department was resumed as a vicar of the Chernigov diocese, and was continuously replaced until the troubled 1920s .
After a long break, Novgorod-Seversky Vicar was reappointed only in 1998. After 2003, it was not replaced.
Names
- Novgorod-Severskaya
- Novgorod-Severskaya and Glukhovskaya (March 27, 1785 - October 16, 1799)
- Novgorod-Severskaya (vicar) (August 21, 1868 - 1920s, June 28, 1998 - October 16, 2003)
Bishops
- Novgorod-Seversky Diocese
- John (Lezhai) (mentioned 1596)
- Hilarion (Kondratovsky) (March 27, 1785 - September 1, 1797)
- Novgorod-Seversky Vicariate of the Chernigov Diocese
- Theophylact (The Righteous) (October 13, 1868 - January 12, 1869)
- Serapion (Mayevsky) (May 29, 1869 - May 15, 1876)
- Athanasius (Parkhomovich) (June 9, 1885 - March 4, 1889)
- Anthony (Sokolov) (September 24, 1889 - January 19, 1891)
- Sergius (Sokolov) (February 2, 1891 - March 26, 1893)
- Methodius (Nikolsky) (July 15, 1893 - June 28, 1894)
- Pitirim (Windows) (July 17, 1894 - November 2, 1896)
- Euthymius (Schastnev) (November 17, 1896 - October 28, 1898)
- Mikhail (Ermakov) (January 31 - October 20, 1899)
- Philip (Bekarevich) (November 6, 1899 - February 17, 1902)
- Isidore (Bells) (May 12, 1902 - November 4, 1903)
- Nestor (Fomin) (November 4, 1903 - August 19, 1910)
- Joasaph (Romanov) (September 22, 1910 - February 16, 1911)
- Vasily (Epiphany) (March 4 - May 12, 1911)
- Pakhomiy (Kedrov) (August 30, 1911 - September 17, 1916)
- John (Dobroslavin) (October 16, 1916 - February 1923)
- Matthew (Khramtsev) (February 20, 1924-1926)
- Ambrose (Polycopus) (June 28, 1998 - October 16, 2003)