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Diocese of Pskov

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Denomination
  
Eastern Orthodox

Language
  
Old Church Slavonic

Established
  
1589

Governance
  
Eparchy

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Headquarters
  
Trinity Cathedral, Pskov

Sui iuris church
  
Russian Orthodox Church

The Diocese of Pskov and Porkhov (Russian: Псковская и Порховская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church. The ruling bishop is Metropolitan Eusebius (Savin). As of 2008 it consists of 10 monasteries, 212 churches, 108 chapels, 178 priests, 20 deacons.

The diocese was established on January 26 (February 4) 1589 after separating from the Novgorod Diocese.

The cathedra in 1682 was formed by 13 metropolitan, 6 archbishops and 49 bishops. Therefore, suggested to be in Pskov Department of Metropolitan, and was appointed the first metropolitan Markell.

References

Diocese of Pskov Wikipedia


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