From the history of the creation of the Orthodox community in the Kaliningrad region (commentary in line with history)

Kaliningrad and Baltic diocese of
the Kaliningrad metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church

• Address: Russia, 236040, Kaliningrad, st. Ivannikova, 18
• Tel. (reception), fax: 61-69-49
• Official site: ,
• Canonical territory: Kaliningrad; Ladushkinsky, Mamonovsky, Pionersky, Svetlovsky and Yantarny urban districts; Bagrationovsky, Baltiysky, Guryevsky, Zelenogradsky, Ozersky and Svetlogorsk districts of the Kaliningrad region.
• Cathedral: Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Kaliningrad
• On the map: Yandex.Map, Google map

Established on March 31, 2009 by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, being separated from the Smolensk Church.
On October 21, 2021, the independent Chernyakhov diocese was separated from the Kaliningrad diocese, as a result of which Kaliningrad remained under the jurisdiction of the Kaliningrad diocese; Ladushkinsky, Mamonovsky, Pionersky, Svetlovsky, Yantarny urban districts, as well as Bagrationovsky, Baltiysky, Guryevsky, Zelenogradsky, Ozersky and Svetlogorsk districts of the Kaliningrad region. At the same time, the Kaliningrad diocese was determined to be the center of the newly established Kaliningrad Metropolis.

Statistics

• con. April 2011 - 70 parishes, 80 clergy, 27 monastics (21 nuns of monasteries, 6 clergy) [1]
• December 2012 - 70 parishes; 77 priests, 10 deacons (4 of them monastics); 12 nuns, 11 nuns, 23 novices, two monks outside the monasteries [1]

Notes[ | ]

1. A diocesan meeting of the Kaliningrad diocese took place under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill // Patriarchia.ru, December 7, 2014
2. Kaliningrad diocese on the website of the Moscow Patriarchate
3. ↑ 123
   History of the diocese - Kaliningrad Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church
4. New film about the Kaliningrad diocese – Kaliningrad diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church
5. ↑ 1234
   BALTIC VICARIARY // Orthodox Encyclopedia. - M.: Church Scientific, 2002. - T. IV: “Athanasius - Immortality.” - P. 289. - 752 p. — 39,000 copies. — ISBN 5-89572-009-9.
6. Kaliningrad diocese. // Patriarchia.Ru
7. The Smolensk and Kaliningrad diocese may be divided. // Orthodoxy.Ru
8. Journals of the meeting of the Holy Synod of October 21, 2021. Magazine No. 80. // Patriarchy.Ru
9. JOURNALS of the meeting of the Holy Synod of May 5, 2015
10. Now in the Chernyakhov diocese

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