Astana and Almaty Eparchy

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Astana and Almaty Eparchy
General information
Country KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan
Seat Nur-Sultan
Founded June 5, 1945
Eparch Alexander
cathedral Assumption Cathedral of
the Assumption Cathedral
Website mitropolia.kz
statistics
Dean's offices 8th
Parishes 71
priest 149
Deacons 48
location
Location in Kazakhstan

The Astana and Almaty Eparchy ( Kazakh Астана және Алматы епархиясы , Russian Астанайская и Алматинская епархия ) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan . She is a member of the Kazakhstan Metropolitan District. The eparchy, founded in 1945, includes the cities of Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) and Almaty and the Almaty area .

Alexander Gennadjewitsch Mogilew has been Metropolitan of Nur-Sultan and Almaty since March 5, 2010. The cathedral city of the eparchy is the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan, where the Assumption Cathedral is the first cathedral. The Ascension Cathedral is the second cathedral in the eparchy and is located in Almaty.

history

In 1871 the Turkestan Eparchy was formed with its center in Werny (now Almaty).

On June 5, 1945, the Almaty Eparchy was founded as the only one in Kazakhstan. On 31 January 1991 she has been split into three separate eparchies: Alma-Ata Semipalatinsk , Uralsk - Aktobe and Shymkent -Astana.

In 1999, taking into account the status of the capital Astana, the Alma-Ata-Semipalatinsk eparchy was renamed Astana and Almaty eparchy. The territory of the new eparchy comprised six administrative units of the Republic of Kazakhstan: the cities of Astana and Almaty, the Almaty region, East Kazakhstan , the Pavlodar region and the Karagandy region .

On October 6, 2010, the areas of Pavlodar, East Kazakhstan and Karagandy were removed from the eparchy, as the two new eparchies were established in Pavlodar and Karagandy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mitropolia.kz: Астанайская и Алматинская епархия , accessed on October 28, 2018 (Russian).