Berlin Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church

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St. Constantine and Helena Church in Berlin
Christ Resurrection Cathedral (Berlin)
Church of St. John of Kronstadt in Hamburg

The Berlin Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (also known as the Diocese of Berlin and Germany ) belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate.

Structure and direction

The German eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church has its bishopric in Berlin . Archbishop Feofan presided over it until his death . By resolution of the Holy Synod of December 28, 2017, Tikhon was appointed Administrator of the Diocese of Berlin and Germany while temporarily retaining the title of “Bishop of Podolsk”.

The eparchy is structured in five church districts: North, East, West, South and the Bavarian Dean's Office.

status

The Berlin Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church is recognized in Germany as a corporation under public law (through corresponding awards in the states of Berlin and Brandenburg) . She is a member of the Commission of the Orthodox Churches in Germany (KOKid) and the Working Group of Christian Churches (ACK).

history

In Berlin and on the territory of what was then the Soviet occupation zone, later the German Democratic Republic , the Russian communities there were accepted into the Patriarchate of Moscow and all of Russia in 1945 . For them, the diocese of Berlin and Central Europe was formed, which was temporarily, from 1948 to 1960 and again since 1992, called the "Diocese of Berlin and Germany". In 1960 a West German diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate was founded with its seat in Munich, which in 1971 was divided into the diocese of Baden and Bavaria and that of Düsseldorf for the other federal states.

After the reunification of Germany , the Moscow Patriarchate merged its three dioceses, which had previously existed in Germany, into a single Berlin diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in December 1992. The number of parishes has now grown to over 60. Around 190,000 baptized Russian Orthodox Christians receive spiritual care from them.

Bishops

Municipalities by federal state

Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church in Potsdam
Russian Memorial Church in Leipzig
Russian Orthodox Church in Dresden
St. Maria Magdalena Church in Weimar
St. Barbara Church in Krefeld

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Berlin

Brandenburg

Bremen

  • Bremen : Congregation in honor of the imperial martyrs

Hamburg

Hesse

  • Frankfurt am Main : Congregation in honor of the Hieromartyrs Kyprianos and the martyr Justina
  • Kassel : Parish of St. New Martyrs of Russia

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

  • Rostock : Congregation in honor of the Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg
  • Schwerin : Parish of the Holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki.

Lower Saxony

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhineland-Palatinate

  • Kaiserslautern : Mother of God of Vladimir congregation
  • Mainz : St. Martyrs Christophor Congregation
  • Trier : Parish of St. Forty Martyrs from Sebastia

Saarland

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein

Thuringia

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New bishop appointed for the diocese of Vienna and Austria , December 28, 2017, accessed on December 30, 2017.
  2. ^ Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate. Municipalities of Lindau and Friedrichshafen | Home1. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  3. ^ Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate. Municipalities of Lindau and Friedrichshafen | Home1. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .