RO "SKOPINSKY DIOCESE OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Skopinsk and Shatsk diocese
of the Ryazan Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church

• Diocesan administration: Russia, 391800, Ryazan region, Skopin, st. Oktyabrskaya, 26
• Official site:
• Canonical territory: Skopinsky, Korablinsky, Miloslavsky, Alexander Nevsky, Putyatinsky, Ryazhsky, Sapozhkovsky, Saraevsky, Ukholovsky, Shatsky districts of the Ryazan region.
• Cathedral: Sretensky in Skopin
• On the map: Yandex.Map, Google map (no exact coordinates)

The department was established at the beginning of the century as a vicariate of the Ryazan diocese.
After 1936 it was not replaced. It was resumed as an independent diocese on October 5, 2011 within the administrative boundaries of Korablinsky, Miloslavsky, Novoderevensky, Putyatinsky, Ryazhsky, Sapozhkovsky, Saraevsky, Skopinsky, Ukholovsky and Shatsky districts in the southwest of the Ryazan region, having been separated from the Ryazan diocese.

On October 6, 2011, the Skopinsk diocese was included in the newly formed Ryazan Metropolis.

Historical names

• Skopinskaya (vicarate) (1926 - 1936)
• Skopinskaya and Shatskaya (since October 5, 2011)

Statistics

• April 2013 - 121 parishes, 125 churches (4 churches are located on the territory of correctional colonies of the Federal Penitentiary Service), 15 chapels; 105 clergy and religious, incl. 103 priests, 2 deacons, 16 religious clergy [1]

Bishops

Vicariate of Ryazan

• Smaragd (Yablonev) (1926 - October 1926)
• Abraham (Churilin) ​​(November 2, 1928 - July 13, 1930)
• Ignatius (Sadkovsky) (February 3, 1933 - September 17, 1935)
• Alexander (Toropov) (September 8 - October 7, 1935)
• Ignatius (Sadkovsky) (October 7, 1935 - March 5, 1936)
• Dimitry (Pospelov) (March 5, 1936 - 1936)

Independent diocese

• Vladimir (Samokhin) (December 2, 2011 - May 30, 2014)
• Veniamin (Zaritsky) (May 30, 2014 - November 15, 2015) senior, metropolitan. Ryazan, Orenburg

Current state

Diocesan departments

• Missionary department
• Youth department
• Social department
• Department for interaction with the Cossacks
• Department of Religious Education and Catechesis
• Information department

Deanery districts

• Alexander Nevskoye Deanery
• 1st Korablinsky deanery
• 2nd Korablinsky deanery
• Miloslav deanery
• Putyatinsky deanery
• Ryazhsk deanery
• Sapozhkovsky deanery
• Sarajevo Deanery
• 1st Skopino Deanery
• 2nd Skopino Deanery
• Ukholovskoe deanery
• Shatsk deanery

Monasteries

• Skopinsky Dimitrievsky Monastery (male; village of Dmitrievo, Skopinsky district)
• Nikolo-Bavykinsky Monastery (male; Zarya Svobody village, Sarajevo district)
• Nikolo-Cherneevsky Monastery (male; village of Starocherneevo, Shatsky district)
• Holy Spirit Monastery (male; Skopin)
• Vyshensky Assumption Monastery (women; Vysha, Shatsky district)
• Intercession Monastery (women; village of Shamorga, Shatsky district)

Geography of deaneries

• Skopinskoe city - Skopin
• Alexandro-Nevskoe
• p. Alexandro-Nevsky, p. Good, p. Zaborovo, village Zimarovo, s. Kalinino, s. Nizhny Yakimets, village. Novosergievka, s. Students

• Korablino, s. Amanovo, s. Bestuzhevo, s. Erlino, Iberdsky village, p. Kipchakovo, s. Key, p. Neznanovo, s. Pustotino, s. Pehlec, s. Trinity-Lesunovo, village. Semion, s. Yurakovo

• r/n Miloslavskoe, village. Bogoroditskoye, village Zmeevka, s. Lipyagi, village Muraevnya, village Novo-Alexandrovo, village. Pokrovo-Gagarino, village. Chernava

• With. Vorshevo, s. Karabukhino, s. Letniki, s. Sandbox, s. Putyatino, s. Ungor, s. Chernaya Sloboda

• Ryazhsk, s. 1st Marchuki, p. Bolshaya Aleshnya, village Bolshoye Samarino, village. Degtyanoye, s. Zhuravinka, s. New Egoldaevo, village. Petrovo, s. Poplevino, s. Turovo

• r/n Boot, s. Korovka, s. Krasnoe, s. Red Corner, p. Morozov Borki, p. Novokrasnoye, village Black River

• r/n Sarai, s. Fighter, s. Mozhary, village Napolnoe, village Novobokino, s. Panic, p. Sysoi

• With. Voslebovo, s. Delekhovo, s. Ermolovo, village Kornevoye, s. Lopatino, s. Pobedinka, p. Polyany, village Sekirino, s. Shelemishevo

• With. Delekhovo, s. Ilyinka, s. Kazinka, s. Katino, s. Klekotki, p. Kremlevo, s. Lazinka, s. Muravlyanka, s. Nemerovo, s. Uspenskoye

• r/n Ukholovo, s. Alexandrovka, s. Pokrovskoe, village Smoleyevka, s. Yasenok

• Shatsk, s. Borki, s. Vysokoe, s. Cossack Duke, p. Kermis, s. Red Hill, village Purchase, s. Lesnoye-Konobeevo, village. Polnoye-Konobeevo, village. Polnoye-Yaltunovo, village. Temeshevo, s. Emmanuilovka

Russian Orthodox Church

Part of the Ryazan Metropolitanate

Formed by the decision of the Holy Synod of October 5-6, 2011 (magazine No. 104) by separating from the Ryazan diocese. The Synod decided to have the title “Skopinsky and Shatsky” for the ruling bishop. The Synod also decided to include (magazine No. 132) the Skopino diocese into the Ryazan Metropolis.

Unites parishes within the administrative boundaries of Korablinsky, Miloslavsky, Novoderevensky, Putyatinsky, Ryazhsky, Sapozhsky, Saraevsky, Skopinsky, Ukholovsky and Shatsky districts of the Ryazan region.

Diocese today (as of May 2018)

Deaneries and deaneries

• Alexander Nevskoe - Archpriest Arkady Bezborodkin
• I Korablinskoe - Archpriest Pyotr Lesnikov
• II Korablinskoye - Archpriest Evgeny Udovenko
• Miloslavskoye - Archpriest Valery Khirov
• Putyatinskoe - Abbot Theodorit (Dolgov)
• Ryazhskoe - Archpriest Andrei Silinsky
• Sapozhkovskoe - Archpriest Oleg Kuzmin
• Sarajevo - Priest Alexy Sautkin
• I Skopinskoye - Priest Anthony Rusanov
• II Skopinskoe - Archpriest Vladimir Paliy
• Ukholovskoye - priest Oleg Lozov
• Shatskoye - Abbot Seraphim (Sergeev)

Monasteries and farmsteads

men's:

• Dimitrievsky 391842, Ryazan region, Skopinsky district, village. Dmitrievo; tel. +7910 643-24-02, e-mail Hegumen Ambrose (Kalabukhov)
• Nikolo-Bavykinsky 391891, Ryazan region, Saraevsky district, Zarya Svobody village; tel.; e-mail abbot Pavel (Udovenko)
• Nikolo-Cherneevsky 391588, Ryazan region, Shatsky district, village. Starocherneevo; tel. +7903 640-00-35; e-mail acting rector - Archimandrite Theodosius (Ivanov)
• Svyato-Dukhov 391803, Ryazan region, Skopin; AZMR, Troitskaya Roshcha town; e-mail; tel. +7952 744-98-44i.o. Viceroy - Hieromonk Ignatius (Dolotov)

women's:

• Pokrovsky 391574, Ryazan region, Shatsky district, village. Shamorga; tel.: (49147) 2-73-25, acting abbess - nun Sergia (Volkova)
• Uspensky Vyshensky 391574, Ryazan region, Shatsky district, p/o Vysha; tel.: (49147) 2-73-73; e-mail Abbess Vera (Rovchan)

Number of parishes in the diocese

There are 171 parishes in the diocese, including 131 churches. Three churches are located on the territory of correctional colonies of the Federal Penitentiary Service, 14 churches - on the territory of monasteries, three churches at social institutions, three churches at diocesan metochions. Six ascribed temples, one temple without legal status, six chapels, four prayer rooms.

The number of clergy and monastics is 114, including:

• priests - 98
• deacons - 4
• monastic clergy - 12

Social institutions

• “Bank of things of the Skopin diocese” at the St. Nicholas Church in the city of Ryazhsk, Ryazan region, Ryazhsky district, Ryazhsk; tel. +7910 644-53-40; e-mail
• almshouse at St. Nicholas Church r.p. Sapozhok Ryazan region, Sapozhkovsky district, urban settlement Boot; tel. +7910 902-21-62; e-mail
• Medical center in honor of St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) at the Assumption Vyshensky Convent, Ryazan region, Shatsky district, village. Vysha; tel. (49147) 2-73-73; e-mail
• Marfo-Mariinsky Church at a general boarding house for the elderly and disabled in the city of Skopin, Ryazan region, Skopin, st. Sovetskaya, 147

Diocesan media

• official website of the Skopino diocese
• “Vyshensky Leaflet” (newspaper of the Assumption Vyshensky Convent)

On February 2-5, 2013, the Consecrated Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church took place

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Bishop Vladimir took part in the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and bishops

Bishop Vladimir of Skopinsky and Shatsky took part in the opening of the Consecrated Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church

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The Consecrated Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church opened in Moscow

On February 2, the Consecrated Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church began its work in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which was attended by archpastors of the Moscow Patriarchate from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Estonia, as well as countries far abroad where there are dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Amazing things are happening in the Moscow diocese

About Metropolitan Juvenalia

Amazing things are happening in the Moscow diocese, headed by Metropolitan Juvenaly (Poyarkov) of Krutitsky and Kolomna, who turns 84 this year. Metropolitan Yuvenaly is even more fierce than at the beginning of his ministry at the Krutitsa See and even more than during the time of Alexy II. Bans priests for any reason; a report from the dean, who did not share something with his rector or cleric, is enough - and the sentence is passed immediately.

Today in the Moscow diocese there are 165 priests banned from serving, with a total number of clergy of 1554, that is, more than every tenth priest! There are also a lot of supernumerary ones - 113 clergy, of which only 17 have reached the age of 75, while in the Moscow city diocese, with 1685 clergy, the number of banned priests is such an insignificant percentage that it’s not worth talking about.

What is the matter, maybe in the Moscow (regional) diocese there is such a clergy that only constant repression can keep in obedience the priests entrusted to Metropolitan Juvenal, who leads his diocese from the Domodedovo hospital, who constantly violate their oath and apostolic rules? However, in the constant transfers, bans, petitions for the staff, the main tendency of Metropolitan Juvenaly can be traced, presumably directly propagated by him to his dean - this is the replacement of venerable, respected pastors - rectors of churches with young graduates of the Kolomna Seminary and those transferred from other dioceses.

Why did those priests who organize parish life and lead a permanent Orthodox mission not please Metropolitan Juvenaly? The fact that they are champions of Orthodoxy, preventing modernist tendencies, directly related to the Catholic and ecumenical position of Metropolitan Juvenal himself, from entering the Church. The young chicks of the nest of Bishop Konstantin of Zaraisk or PSTGU V. Vorobyov, thoroughly imbued with the teachings of Origen and the need to introduce modernism into the Russian Orthodox Church, are ready not only to fulfill any whim of the dean and ruling bishop, but often go further, directly deviating into the Catholic heresy.

What remains for the banned and unemployed priests, many of whom have large families? To deviate into one’s own personal schism – to go to other churches, including the OCU, to join the ranks of the Old Believers, or even to transform into a sect. Thus, by thoughtlessly replacing experienced pastors, who have worked hard in the field of the Orthodox faith, with beardless youths, colossal damage is caused to the Church, when the spiritual children of a banned/supernumerary/demoted priest, transferred to a remote place, disperse in all directions, but the majority simply leaves the Church, cursing her hierarchy and seducing others to never visit the House of God again.

That is why the number of parishioners decreases from year to year, services are not ordered, funeral services are not performed for the dead, and crowns are not placed on the heads of those being married. We urgently need to change this sad situation, otherwise the Church will become impoverished without people, churches will close, and we will get today's Europe without Jesus Christ, with closed and destroyed churches, with the removal of crucifixes from hospitals, schools and government institutions, with a ban on wearing crosses and the replacement of Christian holidays to social parties with same-sex “family”.

The main reason is money IMHO. A rich diocese, the population is not poor (for the most part). There are not many temples for such a territory and the number of people. There are many who want to serve. Five seminaries (in Posad in Kolomna in Ugresh, Sretenskaya and Perervinskaya in Moscow), MDA, two theological universities (PSTGU and Ros Prav University), Orthodox graduate school in Novospassky and. etc. I know that there was a theological faculty in one of the commercial universities. Large annual releases.

Imagine the scale! There is an overabundance of personnel, unlike most other dioceses. “Getting through” is very, very difficult. Nobody wants to go to neighboring regions (financially everything is much worse there). So what happens is that places are bought and sold + relatives, children of the clergy themselves through connections. Hence the frequent transfers from place to place to free up space for the one who brought it and frequent prohibitions (there are few churches, there are many who want to stand at the altar). Why stand on ceremony when there are 10 people willing to take his place instead of the one who left?

Holy supreme apostles Peter and Paul, pray to God for us

The Russian Orthodox Church has announced a collection of aid for flood victims in the Krasnodar region

On July 8, 2012, Bishop Vladimir of Skopin and Shatsky took part in the festive concert “Swan Fidelity”, dedicated to the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, which took place in the small hall of the Palace of Culture in Skopin

On July 7, 2012, Bishop Vladimir of Skopin and Shatsk performed the rite of minor consecration of the Kazan Church in the village. Podsosenki of the Shatsk region and the Divine Liturgy

On July 6, 2012, Bishop Vladimir of Skopin and Shatsk led the service of the All-Night Vigil in the Kazan Church of the Holy Dormition Vyshensky Monastery

On July 6, 2012, Bishop Vladimir of Skopin and Shatsk performed the rite of consecration of the dome, cross and bells for the Church of the Three Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. Purchase of Shatsk district

On July 6, 2012, Bishop Vladimir of Skopinsk and Shatsk visited the Holy Intercession Convent in the village. Shamorga Shaki district

JOURNALS of the meeting of the Holy Synod of May 29, 2013

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Easter message

Head of the Ryazan Metropolis, Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky Pavel

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On April 18, 2013, a regular meeting of the diocesan council of the Skopin diocese was held in the building of the Skopinsky diocesan administration. The meeting was chaired by Bishop Vladimir Skopinsky and Shatsky.

On March 26, 2013, Bishop Vladimir of Skopin and Shatsk took part in an extended meeting of the Bishops' Council of the Ryazan Metropolis.

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JOURNALS of the meeting of the Holy Synod of March 12, 2013

On March 12, at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', a regular meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church took place. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On February 10, 2013, within the walls of the Orthodox gymnasium in the name of St. Basil of Ryazan, a regional Olympiad was held in the subject of Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture. Pupils of grades 8-11 from Ryazan, Kasimov, Shatsk, Ryazhsk and the village of Shostye took part in the Olympiad. This is not the first time that the Olympics have been held in the gymnasium, so the number of participants increases every year. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________