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Due to political reasons and a number of events of the XX-XXI centuries, several Orthodox jurisdictions operate on the territory of modern Ukraine. Therefore, when describing church life in a particular diocese, it is necessary to clarify from the standpoint of which church party it is represented. In this article, we will talk about one of the oldest departments of Orthodox Russia, of which, undoubtedly, the Poltava diocese. It will be presented mainly in the person of the Moscow Patriarchate, both due to the predominant canonical position of this organization in the Orthodox world, and because of its leading position in the region.

The ancient history of Orthodoxy in the Poltava region

The well-known year 1054, in addition to what marks the great schism of the Christian church, is also interesting in that it is a reference point for the life of the Poltava diocese. It was called, however, at that time Pereyaslavskaya, and its first ruling bishop was Bishop Nikolai. A little over two hundred years after its founding, independent church rule in the Poltava region was abolished, and church structures passed directly under the omophorion. It happened in 1279.

Restoration of the department

The decision to restore the activities of the Pereyaslav diocese was made only in 1700. But even then, her status was limited by the rights of vicariousness within the framework of the Kiev Metropolis. Then its position repeatedly changed, either moving to independent management, or being territorially divided between the neighboring church centers. In the end, in 1799, by decree of Emperor Paul, Vicarism received the status of independent government with the name “Little Russian and Pereyaslavl”. However, already in 1802, in connection with the liquidation of the Little Russian province, the system of church government in the Poltava region changed: Poltava became the main cathedral center (initially only nominally due to the lack of the necessary material base for the administrative apparatus), and Pereyaslavl became the second diocesan center. The official name "Poltava and Pereyaslavl" was assigned to the diocese in 1847. In this form, it existed until 1937.

Throughout its history, the Poltava diocese had two vicarities in its composition. The first of them - Pryluksky - was formed in 1884 and lasted until the diocese was disbanded in the 30s of the XX century. The second, called Lubensky, functioned only for eight years from 1920 to 1928.

When Soviet power was established in the territory, the life of the diocese gradually began to fade. Massively closed churches and liquidated monasteries. In 1937, the ruling bishop, together with the vicar subordinate to him and all the clergy of the diocese, was repressed. After this, the temporary management of the department was taken over by Bishop Mitrofan (Rusinov), who, however, soon died. In fact, in 1939 the Poltava diocese was completely destroyed.

The revival of church life took place during the Great Patriotic War, when a number of churches were opened and some were established under the German occupation. In 1944, the department became known as Poltava and Kremenchug. In this form, it exists to this day in the framework of the Kiev Patriarchate. As for the Moscow church structures, since 2007 the diocese was renamed Poltava and Mirgorod in connection with the separation of the Kremenchug department as an independent center.

Poltava diocese of UOC MP

Within the jurisdiction of the Kiev Metropolitanate of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Poltava Chair occupies an important strategic and political position, due to its historical significance, scale and geographical position within the state.

She is in charge of a theological seminary with a missionary bias, and the primate bears the title of Metropolitan. Today it is His Eminence Philip (Osadchenko). The Poltava diocese in its jurisdiction owns two cathedrals (St. Macarius and the Resurrection of Christ) in the capital city and one (Assumption of Our Lady) in Mirgorod. There are three monasteries in the region - one male and two female. Seven diocesan departments and several auxiliary institutions, such as the youth club at the Cathedral of St. Macarius Cathedral, are engaged in ensuring fruitful interaction between society and the church on the part of the latter.

Other Orthodox jurisdictions in the Poltava region

As already mentioned, except for the UOC, the Poltava diocese belongs to a number of independent church structures. There are a lot of such independent jurisdictions in Ukraine. The smallest of them have only a few units of parishes, and the largest, such as the Kiev Patriarchate, represent a serious political force that successfully competes with the UOC-MP and even disputes its rights.

The Poltava diocese of the UOC-KP today is a vast territory, led by Archbishop Theodore (Bubnyuk). In particular, it, as already noted above, retains Kremenchug as the second cathedral city. In addition to the UOC-KP, in the territory of Poltava there are parishes and communities of various branches of the UAOC, the CPI and other independent jurisdictions of Ukrainian Orthodoxy.

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POLTAVIAN DIOCESE

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Poltava and Mirgorod diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Diocesan Administration: Ukraine, 36024, Poltava, st. Roses Luxembourg, 62-a

Phone: (10 380 53-22) 7-90-88

Official website: http://www.pravoslavie.poltava.ua/

As part of the Pereyaslav and Kiev departments

Soon after the establishment of Orthodoxy in Russia, the lands of the modern Poltava region became part of the Russian state, and were part of the Pereyaslav diocese, which lasted until the second half of the 13th century. After its abolition, this territory was probably under the direct control of the Kiev sovereigns until the resumption of the Pereyaslavsky pulpit at the turn of the XVII - XVIII centuries, where it again moved.

In 1775, part of the Poltava lands also entered the newly created Slavic diocese, uniting the entire vast New Russia, which was annexed shortly before to the Russian Empire. The department of the new diocese, renamed Yekaterinoslavskaya in 1786, was located until 1797 in Poltava, in the Holy Cross Monastery.

According to the Highest Decree of October 16, 1799 on bringing the diocesan and provincial borders into conformity, the Pereyaslav department again regains independence under the name of the Little Russian and Pereyaslav regions and occupies the territory of the Little Russian province created in 1796, which includes the whole Poltava region.

Poltava diocese in the synodal period

However, soon the provincial system was replaced again, and already on December 4 or 17, 1803, the Little Russian Diocese was transformed by the decree of the Holy Synod of Poltava. At the same time, the residence of the hierarchs of the new Poltava diocese, inheriting the Little Russia, remained for a long time in the city of Pereyaslavl, in the suburban cottage of Andrusha, due to the lack of suitable premises for the diocesan administration in Poltava. Only in 1847 the center of the diocese was moved to Poltava.

To help manage the diocese in 1884, the Priluk Vicariate was opened, whose bishops stayed at the Poltava Holy Cross Monastery, the former residence of the Ekaterinoslav bishops.

In 1863 - 1919 the diocese had its own press organ - the Poltava Diocesan Gazette journal. At different times, in addition to the modern Poltava region, the territory of the Poltava diocese also included Pereyaslavsky, Zolotonoshsky, Pryluksky and Romensky districts (now - Kiev, Cherkasy, Sumy and Chernihiv regions). From 1890 to 1918, the Poltava Diocesan Brotherhood in the name of the Holy Martyr Makarii acted, helping the parish schools. Thanks to the active work of the ruling bishop John (Smirnov) and a number of famous Poltava scholars, the Poltava Archaeological Committee and the Poltava archaeological store were created in 1906 under the decree of the Holy Synod, a unique museum of rare church antiquity, which preserved the Peresopnitsky Gospel, which operated until 1919 of the year.

Revolutionary hard times, persecution, war

With the establishment of Soviet power, church property, including sacred objects, was looted or seized by order of the authorities. Then they were transferred to the state museums and treasures of the Poltava ancient storage. After the closing of the Poltava Holy Cross Monastery in 1923, the imperishable remains of Archbishop Ambrose (Serebrennikov), as well as Athanasius (Volkhovsky), Bishop of Mogilev disappeared without a trace.

After the events of October 1917, churches and monasteries in the Poltava region began to close in a mass fashion; in 1937, the entire ruling diocesan episcopate, along with the clergy, was repressed, parishes liquidated. In 1939, after the death of the temporarily managing diocese of Bishop Mitrofan (Rusinov), the department in Poltava was practically nipped.

During the Nazi occupation, in 1942 - 1943, the Poltava diocese resumed its activities for a while, some of the churches were opened. The ruling bishop bore the title "Poltava and Lubensky". Archpriest Vladimir Binevsky led the diocese before the appointment of the bishop - Bishop Benjamin (Novitsky).

In the post-war USSR

In the postwar years, the Poltava diocese suffered as much as the whole Church. The number of active parishes decreased from 346 in 1945 to 52 in 1970, clergy - from 376 to 65. The figures for the 1970s remained approximately unchanged until the 1988 turning point.

Modern stage

With the fall of the atheistic regime in the Poltava diocese, as well as throughout the Church, the process of restoring church life, returning people to faith and rebuilding churches quickly began.

Today, the diocese unites parishes and monasteries in the eastern part of the Poltava region, which includes Velikobagachansky, Gadyachsky, Dikansky, Zenkovsky, Karlovsky, Kobelyaksky, Kotelevsky, Mashevsky, Mirgorodsky, Novosanzharsky, Poltava, Reshetilovsky, Chutovsky and Shisha. Cathedral City - Poltava. Cathedral - Makarievsky (Poltava).

Name changes

Poltava and Lubenskaya 1942 - 1943

Poltava and Kremenchug 1944-14.XI. 2007

Poltava and Mirgorod from 14.XI. 2007

Statistics

1912 - 2606899 people of the Orthodox faith, 1250 temples, 7 monasteries (3 men, 4 women) with almost 500 monks and nuns and with as many novices and novices, four theological schools (in Poltava, Lubny, Pereyaslav and Romny), spiritual a seminary and a female diocesan school in Poltava, almost every church had a parish school or a literacy school in which more than 54,000 pupils and pupils studied. In 17 cathedrals, 1124 parish churches, 29 ascribed, 22 house and 40 cemetery churches, 51 archpriests, 1262 priests and 1386 psalm-worshipers obeyed.

1912 - churches - 1256, chapels - 31; monasteries - 8 (3 men., 5 women.); theological seminary - 1, theological schools - 4, the diocesan female school - 1, the church school - 1051; libraries attached to churches - 1241.

1945 - 346 churches, 376 clergymen (including 5 monks).

1948 - 340 churches, 325 clergymen (level preserved until 1961).

1970 - 52 churches, 65 clergymen.

beg. 1988 - almost the same as in 1970, slightly more clergy.

oK. 2004 - 358 parishes; 231 clergymen (214 priests, 17 deacons).

Archpastors

Parthenius (Levitsky) (1920 - 1921) high school, archbishop. b. Tula (at rest)

1921-1923 - widowhood of the department

1939-1942 - almost stopped

Simon (Ivanovsky) (1945 - 1947)

Alipiy (Khotovitsky) (June 15, 1958 - August 14, 1961, November 14, 1961 - March 30, 1964) for the first time - w / u, Kremenchug

Vicar dioceses

Prylukskaya (invalid)

Lubenskaya (invalid)

Priyatinskaya (invalid)

Kobelyakskaya (invalid)

Romenskaya (invalid)

Pereyaslavskaya (invalid)

Khorolskaya (invalid)

Diocesan Departments

on cooperation with the Armed Forces, law enforcement agencies and ITU

Monasteries

Monastery in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Poltava (female)

Schools

Poltava Missionary Theological College

Orthodox associations and organizations

Orthodox Brotherhood "Union of Orthodox Believers in Honor of the Gorbanev Icon of the Mother of God", Poltava

Orthodox youth fraternity in honor of the Kozelshchansk Icon of the Mother of God, town. Vault of Zenkovsky district

Diocesan Brotherhood named after the Holy Martyr Macarius (1890 - 1918)

Church Media

The Poltava Eparchial Vedomosti (1863 - 1919), now the Vidomosti of the Poltava Eparchy (since January 2002)

Blagovest, Orthodox youth fraternity in honor of the Kozelshchansk Icon of the Mother of God

“Glory to God for everything”, Charles deanery

“Transfiguration”, Poltava Spassky Church

"Ladanka", Trinity community p. Takhtaulova

Literature

Kolomensky, G., Collection of necessary information about each parish and the calendar address of the clergy of the Poltava diocese: part 1, Poltava, 1890, 309 p.

Reference Clear Book on the Poltava Diocese for 1912, Poltava, 1912,, XCII, 303 pp.

Pavlovsky, I.F., Poltava: Hierarchs, statesmen and public figures and philanthropists: The experience of a brief biographical dictionary of the Poltava province from the middle of the 18th century , Poltava, 1914, XVI, 294 p., 182 l. Portr.

Used materials

Article of the Russian Orthodox Church 2000-2004:

http://ezh.sedmitza.ru/index.html?did\u003d125

Historical sketch on the official website of the diocese:

http://pravoslavie.poltava.ua/ru/0/1136543104/view.php

http://mospat.ru/index.php?chp\u003d_eparchies&cid\u003d101

http://hierarchy.religare.ru/h-orthod-russian-poltava.html

Or until 1799 - see http://pravoslavie.poltava.ua/ru/0/1136543104/view.php

Date by Yu. Tolstoy, 121; . According to Durnovo N.N. - 4.XII. 1803. See http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866

The date for the historical sketch on the official website of the diocese is http://pravoslavie.poltava.ua/ru/0/1136543104/view.php. According to http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866 - until 1928.

According to the clergy book of the Poltava diocese. Cit. according to the historical outline on the official website of the diocese http://pravoslavie.poltava.ua/ru/0/1136543104/view.php

Http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866

According to the historical outline on the official website of the diocese http://pravoslavie.poltava.ua/ru/0/1136543104/view.php

According to the article of the ROC 2000-2004 Guide, http://ezh.sedmitza.ru/index.html?did\u003d125

So according to http://hierarchy.religare.ru/h-orthod-russian-poltava.html. According to other sources - from January 15. See http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866

So according to http://hierarchy.religare.ru/h-orthod-russian-poltava.html. According to other sources - from June 29. See http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866

In connection with a long illness, the archbishop. John

So for MMR "RPI" (762), for http://hierarchy.religare.ru/h-orthod-russian-poltava.html. According to http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866 - until February 21.

So according to http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866. Bishop John (Snychev) ("Composition of the Russian ... hierarchy for 1971"), http://hierarchy.religare.ru/h-orthod-russian-poltava.html - indicate him as the ruling bishop both times.

In the article of the ROC 2000-2004 Guidebook - it was erroneously indicated until October 7, 2001. See http://ezh.sedmitza.ru/index.html?did\u003d125. According to http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866 - for the first time until September 12, 1979.

So according to http://hierarchy.religare.ru/h-orthod-russian-poltava.html. By http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866 - until April 19, 1985.

So according to http://hierarchy.religare.ru/h-orthod-russian-poltava.html. By http://ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/or_file.cgi?3_866 - until May 15, 1992.

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