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Diocese Of Barysaŭ (Belarusian Orthodox Church)
The Diocese of Barysaŭ (; ) is an eparchy of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (an exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church) located in Minsk Region in Belarus. History The Diocese of Barysaŭ was first established as a vicariate of the Diocese of Minsk by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on 13 March 2002. On 31 March 2002, was ordained as bishop of Barysaŭ at Holy Spirit Cathedral in Minsk. However, on 4 June 2002, Khama was appointed as , and the vicariate was left without a head. At another meeting of the Holy Synod on 5 March 2010, the vicariate was again given a bishop at the request of Philaret. Vienijamin (Tupieka), then head of the in , was appointed as bishop of the diocese. On 23 April 2014, the Holy Synod chose to promote the vicariate of Barysaŭ to a diocese. The diocese, along with the Dioceses of Minsk, , and , became part of the . In January 2023, the Diocese of Barysaŭ awarded two letters to the head of a local penal colony A penal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of with a population of . The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, six regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city; it is administered separately as a city with special status. For most of the medieval period, the lands of modern-day Belarus was ruled by independent city-states such as the Principality of Polotsk. Around 1300 these lands came fully under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; this period lasted for 500 years until the Partitions of Poland, 1792-1795 partitions of Poland-Lithuania placed Belarus within the Belarusian history in the Russian Empire, Russian Empire for the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Minsk (Belarusian Orthodox Church)
The Diocese of Minsk (; ) is an eparchy of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, which is an exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. History The diocese was established by the Supreme decree of 13 April 1793. It was established for the regions, which became part of the Russian Empire at the second partition of Poland, instead of Turov diocese, remained until 1798 in the conduct of the Kiev Metropolitanate, and also the bishoprics in Slutsk, formerly frontiers of the Kingdom of Poland. Initially, the Department was located in Slutsk, was moved to Minsk by decree on 12 April 1795, but according to Stepan Runkevich, in fact, it moved to Minsk only on 3 September 1799. Soon the Minsk diocese also included the Lithuanian regions that were regions that were included in Russia during the third partition of Poland. Thus it became extremely large, and the reunion with the Orthodox Church of one and a half million Western Russian Uniates made it even larger. Already in 1795, it was found nece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penal Colony
A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. Although the term can be used to refer to a correctional facility located in a remote location, it is more commonly used to refer to communities of prisoners overseen by wardens or governors having absolute authority. Historically, penal colonies have often been used for penal labour in an economically underdeveloped part of a state's (usually colonial) territories, and on a far larger scale than a prison farm. British Empire With the passage of the ''Transportation Act 1717'', the British government initiated the penal transportation of indentured servants to Britain's colonies in the Americas, although none of the North American colonies were solely penal colonies. British merchants would be in charge of transporting the convicts across the Atlantic to the colonies w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philaret (Vakhromeyev)
Metropolitan Philaret (; ; 21 March 1935 – 12 January 2021), born Kirill Varfolomeyevich Vakhromeyev () was the emeritus Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, the Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus and the leader of the Belarusian Orthodox Church that is an autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church. He resigned on 25 December 2013, and was succeeded by Paul (Ponomaryov). Biography Born in 1935 in Moscow, Kirill attended the Moscow Theological Academy in 1954 after spending a year in the seminary. During the course of his studies, he chose the name Filaret when he received the monastic tonsure in 1959. Two years later, he graduated from the academy with a doctorate in theology. After serving in Minsk, Kaliningrad and Moscow, Filaret was appointed Metropolitan of Minsk and the entire Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1978. In 1989, as the collapse of the Soviet Union was imminent, Filaret was appointed to become the patriarchal exarch of the new country of Belarus. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
