Diocese of Tver
Diocese of Tver and Kashin | |
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 Resurrection Cathedral in Tver, September 2010 | |
| Location | |
| Headquarters | Tver |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox |
| Sui iuris church | Russian Orthodox Church |
| Established | 1271 |
| Language | Old Church Slavonic |
| Governance | Eparchy |
| Website | |
| tvereparhia | |
The Diocese of Tver and Kashin (Russian: Тверская и Кашинская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tver Oblast and is one of the oldest dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.
History
The Tver diocese separated from the Polotsk diocese at the Grand Prince Yaroslav Yaroslavich no later than 1271. In 1589, it installed an Archdiocese.
Until 1928, it was called the Diocese of Tver and Kashin. From 1928 to 1943 and from 1950 to 1990, it was the Kalinin and Kashinskaya diocese. From 1943 to 1944 - it was the Diocese of Smolensk and Kalinin. From 1944 to 1950 it was Kalinin and Velikolukskaya Diocese, and then the Diocese of Tver and Kashin again in 1990. On December 28, 2011 from the Tver diocese marked Bezhetskaya and Rzhevskaya diocese, within the Tver region formed Diocese of Tver, which includes Bezhetskaya, Rzhev and Tver diocese.[1]
Former titles
Tver (1271)
Former Bishops
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