Parishes and churches of the Yekaterinburg diocese

On the initiative and under the guidance of Bishop Irenaeus (Horde) , the master of theology, the author of many works, by 1902 a guide “Parishes and Churches of the Yekaterinburg Diocese” was compiled, which is a brief extract from church chronicles. And at the expense of the Brotherhood in the name of the righteous Simeon Verkhotursky, founded in 1886 in Yekaterinburg , in 1902 the guide was published in Yekaterinburg. One of the main activities of the fraternity was the anti-splinter and anti-sectarian mission ^[1] .

The abbots of the churches of the Yekaterinburg diocese were the first collectors of material for the reference book and they presented this material. Representatives of the city Yekaterinburg clergy, teachers of the Diocesan Women’s and Men’s Spiritual Schools, as well as local Ural history buff N. S. Smorodintsev, finalized the material, reduced it, supplemented it with information from various printed sources delivered by the parish priests. The guide was edited by the caretaker of the Theological School priest G. A. Usoltsev ^[2] .

The management of archives of the Sverdlovsk region of GKUSO GASO indicates that the directory “Parishes and Churches of the Yekaterinburg Diocese” contains descriptions of the parishes and churches of Yekaterinburg, Verkhotursky, Irbitsky, Kamyshlovsky, Shadrinsky counties of the Perm province. The reference book contains data on the church institutions themselves, on the territory on which they were located, nearby settlements (cities, villages, villages, factories) and local residents. In the metric books of individual temples, it is possible to establish the facts of the birth, marriage and death of local residents who visited distant temples before. Attached to the contents of the book index allows you to specify the geographical scope of the search for archival documents, guided by the names of settlements or geographical objects ^[3] .

The book includes ^[4] :