The Diocese of Tver and Kashin (russian: Тверская и Кашинская епархия) is an

eparchy Eparchy ( gr, ἐπαρχία, la, eparchía / ''overlordship'') is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity, that is equivalent to a diocese in Western Christianity. Eparchy is governed by an ''eparch'', who is a bishop. Depending on the ...

of the

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Tver Oblast Tver Oblast (russian: Тверска́я о́бласть, ''Tverskaya oblast'', ), from 1935 to 1990 known as Kalinin Oblast (), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tver. It was named after Mi ...

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 Kashin diocese. From 1943 to 1944 - it was the Diocese of Smolensk and Kalinin. From 1944 to 1950 it was Kalinin and Velikiye Luki Diocese, and then the Diocese of Tver and Kashin again since 1990. On December 28, 2011, Dioceses of Bezhetsk and Rzhev were separated from Tver and Kashin, and three all formed a new Metropoly of Tver, covering all Orthodox parishes in

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Former titles

Former Bishops

References

{{Russian Orthodox Church Eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church