Ural Diocese (ROCC)

January 9, 1857, Gennady was consecrated to the bishop of Perm, Gennady (Belyaev) . The center of the vast region entrusted with its conduct was to become Yekaterinburg , in which by that time several dozen supporters of the Belokrinitsky hierarchy already lived. Reasonably fearing persecution by the authorities, Bishop Gennady constantly traveled to the Perm, Orenburg , Vyatka and Tobolsk provinces . Driving through factories and villages, he was involved in the formation of local structures of the “Austrian” Church with extraordinary energy. In a short time he managed to set up for the diocese one archimandrite, 23 priests and 4 deacons. Such vigorous activity caused dissatisfaction with the authorities, and already in 1859 he was detained at the South-Knauf plant of the Osinsky district of the Perm province. However, he managed to escape. Bishop Gennady continued to travel through his diocese, hiding from the police ^[1] .

After the arrest of Gennady, the Perm Old Believer bishopric was considered vacant, so for some time the main among the "Austrians" of the region was the oldest in hierarchy - the new bishop of Tobolsk Savatiy (Levshin) , who was supposed to manage a colossal territory from Vyatka to the Pacific Ocean. For this reason, the Ural Old Believers of the Belokrinitsky hierarchy were not spoiled by the attention of Savvaty. When they finally made sure that Gennady left them for a long time, the search for a replacement worthy of him began. However, the case dragged on, and only after the Yekaterinburg “Austrians” sent a “humble petition” to the Moscow Spiritual Council in January 1864, the temporary management of the Perm diocese was entrusted to the Orenburg bishop Konstantin (Korovin) ^[1] .

On October 15, 1885, the bishop with the title "Perm and All Siberia" was ordained priest Methodius (Ekimov) . His residence was 80 miles from Tomsk, in the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Old Believer monastery, which he rarely left. In August 1892, Methodius was arrested in Irkutsk, was convicted and sent into exile in Vilyuisk, where he died on May 10, 1894. In 1894, the Old Believer Church in the Urals and Siberia was led by Bishop Anthony (Poromov) ^[1] .

Until the 1930s, Perm was the center of the Perm-Tobolsk Old Believer diocese, the last bishop of which Amphilochius was arrested in 1933, and church property was confiscated. Old Believers were forced to go to prayer in the surrounding towns and villages.

In 1985, only officially registered communities existed in the territory of the modern Ural diocese of the diocese: in the city of Vereshchagino , the village of Ageevka of the Vereshchaginsky district of the Perm region and the village of Pristan in the Artinsky district of the Sverdlovsk region . These parishes were fed by one priest - Fr. Valery Shabashov and since 1989 - about. John Ustinov. All three communities consisted of 90% of those Christians who were Belokrinitsy in their family origin ^[2] .

The consecrated Council on October 20-22, 1999 approved the Ural Diocese within the borders of Perm Region , Bashkiria , Chelyabinsk , Orenburg , Sverdlovsk , Kurgan , Komi-Permyat Autonomous Okrug . As a cathedral, a cathedral was approved in the name of the saints Apostle Peter and Paul in Perm ^[3] .

By the decision of the Consecrated Council on September 14-16, 2006 it was decided: “in connection with the administrative affiliation of the city of Tchaikovsky in the Perm Region, transfer the parish of the city of Tchaikovsky from the Kazan-Vyatka diocese to the Ural diocese” ^[4] .

As of 2007, the diocese had 21 officially registered and 3 unregistered communities and one unregistered monastery ^[2] . In the diocese, 9 priests and one deacon served ^[2] .

Diocese of Perm

• Gennady (Belyaev) (January 9, 1857 - October 3, 1862)
• Savatiy (Levshin) (1862-1864) high school , bishop Tobolsk
• Konstantin (Korovin) (1864 - September 18, 1881) high school, bishop Orenburg
• Methodius (Ekimov) (October 15, 1885 - May 10, 1894)
• Anthony (Poromov) (July 14, 1894 - September 19, 1918)
• Amphilochius (Zhuravlev) (1918-1920) high school, bishop Ural
• Joanicius (Ivanov) (November 21, 1920 - May 30, 1930)
• Amfilohiy (Zhuravlev) (1930 - November 1, 1937)

Ural diocese

• Alimpiy (Gusev) (October 22, 1999 - December 31, 2003) w / u, met. Moscow
• Andrian (Chetvergov) (February 12, 2004 - August 10, 2005) high / low, met. Moscow
• Cornelius (Titov) (October 23, 2005 - October 18, 2018) high / low, met. Moscow
• Evfimiy (Dubinov) (since October 18, 2018) high school , bishop Kazan and Vyatka

• Cathedral Church - Church of St. Stephen of Perm ( Perm )
• The icon of the diocese is Archpriest Vyacheslav Zobnin
• Deanery - Archpriest Valery Shabashov
• Deanery - Archpriest Mikhail Tataurov

Periodicals:

• newspaper of the Ural diocese "Starover Verkhokamya";
• the newspaper of the Holy Trinity community of the village of Pristan "Community"

Old Believers Avvakumov readings are held annually in mid-December in Perm ^[5] .

• Ural diocese on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church
• http://rpsc-perm.ru/ site Perm Old Belief
• TEMPLE AT ATAMAN // Gorynych. Local history collection. Part 3. Uralsk, 2009.
• TEMPLE OF HOLY STEPHANE OF PERM. PERM (ROCC)