Diocese of Yaroslavl

Diocese of Yaroslavl and Rostov
Transfiguration Cathedral
Location
Headquarters	Yaroslavl
Information
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox
Sui iuris church	Russian Orthodox Church
Established	991 (formally 1788)
Language	Old Church Slavonic
Governance	Eparchy
Website
www.yareparhia.ru

The Diocese of Yaroslavl and Rostov (Template:Lang-ru) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church in the area of the Yaroslavl Oblast.

History

Neposredstvenno (predecessor diocese) was founded in 991. Rostov and Suzdal diocese with the center in Rostov, the title of the ruling bishop has changed several times.

In 1390 the diocese became archdiocese. From 1711 to 1783 it was headed by Bishops and Archbishops and from 1783 to 1786 and Archbishop.

In 1786, the department was transferred from Rostov to Yaroslavl. At that time, 29 monasteries operated in the diocese.

From 1907 to 1913 the Yaroslavl diocese headed by Archbishop Tikhon (Bellavin), the future Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. His successor at the department was the Metropolitan Agafangel (Transfiguration) (glorified in 2000 as Svyaschennaya Ispovednik). In 1923-1926, Archbishop Joseph ran the diocese.