Eparchy for Vienna and Austria
The eparchy for Vienna and Austria , Vienna and Austrian diocese ( Russian Венская и Австрийская епархия ) is a diocese ( eparchy ) of the Russian Orthodox Church .
Its cathedral is the Church of St. Nicholas in Vienna-Landstrasse .
It is subject to the Patriarchate of Moscow and All Russia , currently under Patriarch Kirill I , with Mark, Archbishop of Egoryevsk as the competent kommissarischem secretary at the office for foreign institutions (State Department) , which exercises the office of bishop, and also to Budapest and Hungary responsible is.
Parishes
- Russian Orthodox parish of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Vienna
- Russian Orthodox parish for the protection of the Virgin Mary in Graz - divine service in the treasury chapel of the Minorites
- Parish to St. New martyrs and confessors of Russia in Linz - service in St. Paul zu Pichling
history
The beginnings of the Russian Orthodox community in Austria go back to the time of Tsar Peter I the Great (1672–1725). There was a parish church since 1899. In 1946 an exarch of the patriarchate in Central Europe was sent to Vienna. In 1951 a deanery was set up in Vienna , the diocese for Austria has existed since 1962. Formal state recognition took place in 1967, giving the eparchy the status of a corporation under public law .
Bishops of Vienna and Austria
- Sergius (Koroljow) (June 7, 1946 - November 17, 1948)
- Philaret (Denissenko) (November 16, 1962 - December 22, 1964)
- Bartholomew (Gondarowskij) (December 22, 1964 - July 7, 1966)
- Jonathan (Kopolowitch) (July 7, 1966 - October 7, 1967) Administrator , Bishop of Tegel
- Melchizedech (Lebedev) (October 7, 1967 - June 25, 1970)
- Hermann (Timofejew) (June 25, 1970 - September 3, 1974)
- Victorine (Belyayev) (September 3, 1974 - March 13, 1975)
- Irenäus (Susemihl) (March 13, 1975 - June 26, 1999)
- Pavel (Ponomarev) (December 28, 1999 - May 7, 2003)
- Hilarion (Alfejew) (May 7, 2003 - March 31, 2009)
- Mark (Golokov) (March 31, 2009 - October 22, 2015) Administrator, Archbishop of Yegoryevsk
- Tikhon (Saizew) (October 22, 2015 - December 28, 2017) Administrator, Bishop of Yegoryevsk
- Antonij (Sevryuk) (December 28, 2017 - May 30, 2019)
- Ioann (Roschtschin) (since May 30, 2019)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- The history of the Cathedral of St. Nikolaus in Vienna , nikolsobor.org
- ^ Orthodox Christianity → Patriarch and clergy → Archbishop . Russian Orthodox Parish for the Protection of the Virgin Mary in Graz (Moscow Patriarchate)
- ↑ Russian Orthodox Church , oekumene.at