Tobolsk and Tyumen diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church // “Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia” (2009)

Tobolsk and Tyumen Diocese
of the Tobolsk Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church

• Diocesan administration: Russia, 626152, Tyumen region, Tobolsk, Red Square, Kremlin
• Telephone/fax (reception of the Diocesan Administrator), (3456) 22-24-39 (Secretary of the Diocesan Administration)
• Official site:
• Canonical territory: Tyumen, Tobolsk, Zavodoukovsky, Yalutorovsk; Vagaisky, Isetsky, Nizhnetavdinsky, Tobolsky, Tyumensky, Uvatsky, Uporovsky, Yalutorovsky, Yarkovsky districts of the Tyumen region.
• Cathedrals: Sophia-Uspensky and Pokrovsky in Tobolsk, Znamensky in Tyumen
• On the map: Yandex.Map, Google map

The department in Tobolsk became the first Orthodox diocese in Siberia and included all the lands annexed to Russia.
It was established at the Moscow Council by Patriarch Filaret and his royal son Mikhail Fedorovich in September 1620, having been separated from the Vologda. In 1667, at the Great Moscow Council, a metropolitanate was established in Tobolsk, as the diocese was growing, becoming the most extensive diocese in the then Russian Church [1]. Soon, as the church life of Siberia and the Russian Far East expanded, new departments began to be allocated from the vast metropolis for more careful care of the flock. In 1706 or 1707, the Irkutsk Vicariate was established, which became an independent department in the 1720s. If before the formation of the independent Irkutsk diocese, the jurisdiction of the vicariate included only a small part of Eastern Siberia, namely: Irkutsk, Nerchinsk, Selenginsk (now part of Novoselenginsk) and Verkhneudinsk (now Ulan-Ude) with counties, then with the receipt of independence status, the new diocese included the remaining territories of Eastern Siberia to the Pacific Ocean to the east and to the Arctic Ocean to the north [2]. In 1832, the conciliar decision of 1667 on the founding of an independent Tomsk diocese, which was also separated from Tobolsk, was confirmed. In 1870, the Berezovsky Vicariate was opened in the Tobolsk diocese, with the vicar residing in the Tobolsk Znamensky Monastery [3]. By decision of the Holy Synod in 1887, a special commission was formed on the issue of separating an independent Omsk diocese from Tobolsk. On February 18, 1895, the royal approval of the report on the new diocese followed, to which the Akmola and Semipalatinsk regions, as well as churches and institutions of the Tyukalinsky, Tarsky and Ishimsky districts, which lay closer to Omsk than to Tobolsk, were transferred [4].

After the outbreak of revolutionary unrest in 1917, the diocese was subjected to severe persecution, dividing the share of the entire Russian Orthodox Church under the yoke of atheistic power. Since 1937, a campaign of mass closure of churches, arrest and execution of the clergy began. From 1937 to 1942, not a single ruling bishop remained on the territory of Siberia, which is why all Siberian dioceses ceased to exist [5], but during these years, St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), the only bishop in Siberia, lived in exile in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. who could perform the sacraments. Therefore, in the diptych of the archpastors of the Tobolsk and Omsk dioceses, Archbishop Luke is indicated as the ruling bishop of this period. In the fall of 1942, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop with an appointment to the Krasnoyarsk see, which he ruled until the end of 1943. The second hierarch appointed to Siberia was Archbishop Bartholomew (Gorodtsov), who since 1943 was appointed administrator of the Novosibirsk diocese, with the care of the neighboring ones entrusted to him - Omsk, Tobolsk, Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk [6]. Since 1946, the Omsk diocese has been revived in Siberia, which includes the territory of the Tobolsk see.

The Tobolsk diocese was revived on January 31, 1990, quickly beginning the restoration of church life within its borders.

On May 30, 2011, the Khanty-Mansi diocese within the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and the Salekhard diocese within the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug were separated from the diocese, leaving only the Tyumen region proper (i.e., its southern part, without autonomous okrugs) under the jurisdiction of the Tobolsk department ).

On October 2, 2013, the independent Ishim diocese was separated from the diocese, after which the city districts of Tyumen, Tobolsk, Yalutorovsk, Zavodoukovsky, as well as Vagaisky, Isetsky, Nizhnetavdinsky, Tobolsk, Tyumen, Uvatsky, Uporovsky, Yalutorovsky, Yarkovsky districts remained under the jurisdiction of the Tobolsk See. Tyumen region. At the same time, the Tobolsk diocese was determined to be the center of the newly established Tobolsk Metropolis.

Historical names

• Siberian and Tobolsk (1620 - October 5, 1768) [7]
• Tobolsk and Siberian (October 5, 1768 - 1937)
• Tobolsk and Tyumen (from January 25-26, 1990)

Statistics

• 1892 - cathedrals - 11; churches - 511 (at male and female monasteries - 6, parish - 414, district - 2, at state institutions - 18, house - 4, Edinoverie-parish - 10, abolished or assigned - 45, cemeteries - 12); chapels and prayer houses - 473. Archpriests - 24, priests - 627, deacons - 89, psalmists - 656, lay clergy and clergy - 16 (archpriests - 2, priests - 4, psalmists - 10) [8]
• January 1, 1902 - Orthodox - 871,402 people. (433,628 m.p., 437,774 zh.p.), Raskolnikov - 60,970 people. (30,163 m.p., 30,807 zh.p.), parish trustees operate under 143 churches. For 1901: 393 people joined Orthodoxy, incl. 364 schismatics, 8 churches and 4 chapels were built, 10 parish trustees were opened [9]
• 1912 - Churches - 520, chapels - 404; monasteries - 6 (2 women's), 1 women's community; theological seminary - 1, theological schools - 2, diocesan women's school - 1, church schools - 376; libraries at churches - 309; hospitals - 3, almshouses - 1 [10].
• 1990 - 16 parishes [11].
• January 1, 2000 - 150 parishes registered; 2 male and 1 female monasteries; 80 priests and 35 deacons; Tobolsk Theological Seminary (205 students), Tyumen Theological School, Regency School (45 students), Icon Painting School (42 students), Correspondence Department (174 students), Men's Orthodox Gymnasium (120 students) - the total number of all students 636; 32 Sunday schools (more than 2000 students); 2 Orthodox brotherhoods [12].
• OK. 2004 - 179 parishes; 139 clergy (109 priests, 30 deacons) [13].
• OK. December 5, 2005 - 176 parishes, 4 monasteries (2 men, 2 women) and 1 monastic compound, 46 houses of worship and 15 chapels, 167 clergy: (129 priests and 38 deacons) [11].
• OK. January 10, 2007 - 216 parishes, 4 monasteries, one monastic compound, 151 churches, 21 houses of worship, 20 chapels. 201 clergy, 78 monastics. Tobolsk Theological Seminary with 504 students, 12 Orthodox gymnasiums with 1158 students, 88 Sunday schools with 2840 students. The subject “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” is taught in 77 schools in the Tyumen region [14].
• December 2011 - 4 monasteries, 152 parishes, 138 clergy, 50 monastics (31 monks, 19 nuns) [15]
• March 2013 - 4 monasteries (2 men's, 2 women's), 50 monastics; 141 clergy. There are 626 people studying in 4 gymnasiums (Tobolsk, Tyumen, Ishim, Yalutorovsk), and 1,439 people in 61 Sunday schools of the diocese. [16]
• January 2014 - 4 monasteries, 114 parishes; 120 clerics; 55 monastics, including 28 monks and 27 nuns; 62 Sunday schools, including 51 for children and 11 for adults, with 1,951 students [15]

Archpastors

• Cyprian (Starorusennikov) (September 8, 1620 - November 14, 1624)
• Macarius (Kuchin) (December 16, 1624 - July 24, 1635)
• St. Nektary (Telyashin) (February 7, 1636 - January 7, 1640)
• Gerasim (Kremlin) (May 31, 1640 - July 16, 1650)
• Simeon (March 9, 1651 - February 16, 1664)
• Cornelius (24 June 1664 - 23 December 1677) [17]
• Paul (21 July 1679 - 4 January 1692)
• Ignatius (Rimsky-Korsakov) (April 3, 1692 - March 23, 1701) [18]
• St. Demetrius (Tuptalo) (March 23, 1701 - January 4, 1702)
• St. Filofey (Leshchinsky) (January 4, 1702 - February 1711)
• St. John (Maksimovich) (March 11, 1712 - July 10, 1715)
• St. Philofey (Leshchinsky), 2nd time (July 1715 - February 1721)
• St. Anthony (Stakhovsky) (December 1721 - March 27, 1740)
• Nikodim (Skrebnitsky) (May 29 - June 5, 1740)
• Sschmch. Arseny (Matseevich) (May 26, 1741 - May 13, 1742) [19]
• Anthony (Narozhitsky) (September 26, 1742 - October 9, 1748)
• Sylvester (Glowacki) (July 6, 1749 - October 9, 1755)
• St. Pavel (Konyuskevich) (May 23, 1758 - 1768) [20]
• St. Varlaam (Petrov) (October 5, 1768 - December 27, 1802)
• Anthony (Znamensky) (February 13, 1803 - May 25, 1806)
• Ambrose (Kelembet) (May 25, 1806 - October 28, 1822)
• Ambrose II (Rozhdestvensky-Veshchezerov) (October 28, 1822 - February 14, 1825)
• Evgeny (Kazantsev) (September 30, 1825 - August 7, 1831) [21]
• Pavel (Morev-Pavlov) (August 7 - December 18, 1831)
• Afanasy (Protopopov) (January 24, 1832 - September 21, 1842)
• Vladimir (Aludin/Alaudin/Alyavdin) (November 14, 1842 - May 20, 1845)
• Georgy (Yashchurzhinsky) (June 30, 1845 - April 1, 1852)
• Evlampy (Pyatnitsky) (June 16, 1852 - July 30, 1856) [22]
• Feognost (Lebedev) (July 31, 1856 - September 27, 1862)
• Varlaam II (Uspensky) (October 7, 1862 - April 12, 1872)
• Efrem (Ryazanov) (from April 20, 1872 - military; May 25, 1874 - January 11, 1880) [23]
• Vasily (Levitov) (January 11, 1880 - March 9, 1885)
• Abraham (Letnitsky) (March 9, 1885 - December 16, 1889)
• Justin (Polyansky) (December 16, 1889 - July 17, 1893)
• Schisp. Agafangel (Preobrazhensky) (July 17, 1893 - October 4, 1897)
• Anthony (Karzhavin) (October 4, 1897 - January 30, 1910)
• Eusebius (Grozdov) (March 18, 1910 - April 17, 1912)
• Sschmch. Dionysius (Sosnovsky) (May 1 - 15, 1912) v/u, bishop. Chelyabinsk

• Irinarch (Sineokov-Andreevsky) (November 1918 - 1920) high school, bishop. Berezovsky

• Bartholomew (Gorodtsov) (1943 - 1946) v/u, archbishop. Novosibirsk

1946 - 1990 - as part of the Omsk diocese

Notes[edit | edit code]

1. Borisova V.V. Confiscation of church valuables from Orthodox churches in the Tyumen province in 1922 // Bulletin of the Chelyabinsk State University. — 2009. — No. 28. — P. 145
2. BISHOP COUNCIL OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH JANUARY 30-31, 1990 // Orthodox Encyclopedia. - M.: Tserkovno-nauchny, 2001. - T. III: “Anthimiy - Athanasius.” — P. 548-549. — 752 p. — 40,000 copies. — ISBN 5-89572-008-0.
3. About the business trip of Bishop Dionysius of Chelyabinsk to Tobolsk. Statement of the decree of the Holy Governing Synod. April 25, 1912 Archived copy from July 16, 2015 on the Wayback Machine at chelhistory.ru

Geography of deaneries

• Tobolsk (Tobolsk, Vagai, Uvat, Yarkovsky districts)
• Tobolsk, s. Ashlyk, village Baikalovo, village Begishevo, village Beloozersk, village. Bulashovo, Vagai village, Upper Aremzyany, village. Gilevo, village Gornoslinkino, st. Demyanka, s. Demyanskoye, village Dubrova, s. Dubrovnoye, Zarechny settlement, village. Krasny Yar, Lipovka village, village. Malaya Zorkaltseva, Ovsyannikov village, Pershino village, village. Pokrovskoe, village Preobrazhenka, p. Supra, village Turtas, village Uvat, village. Chernoe, village Shishkina, s. Yarkovo

• Tyumen, Borovsky village, village. Perevalovo

• Yalutorovsk, Zavodoukovsk, s. Berdyugino, s. Bigila, s. Zavodopetrovskoe, village Ivanovka, s. Novaya Zaimka, village. Sloboda-Beshkil, village. Shorokhovo

Monasteries

• Abalaksky Znamensky (male)
• Mezhdugorsky Ioanno-Vvedensky (female)
• Rafailovsky Troitsky (male) (inactive)
• Rafailovsky Uspensky (female) (inactive)
• Suklemsky Trinity (male) (inactive)
• Tobolsk Znamensky (male) (invalid)
• Tyumen Mother of God-Rozhdestvensky (female)
• Tyumen Troitsky (male)

Previously subordinate dioceses

• Nerchinsky Uspensky (inactive, now within the Nerchinsk diocese)
• Ambassadorial Preobrazhensky (male, now within the Ulan-Ude diocese)
• Selenga Trinity (male, now within the Ulan-Ude diocese)
• Tara Pyatnitsky (inactive, now within the Tara diocese)
• Tomsk Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky (male, now within the Tomsk diocese)

Literature[edit | edit code]

• Dronova V.V.
  Tobolsk church renovationism // Tyumen historical collection: collection. - Tyumen: Institute of History and Political Sciences of Tyumen State University, 2009. - P. 186-189. (unavailable link)
• Sofronov V. Yu.
  Missionary activity of the Orthodox Church in Western Siberia among the followers of the Old Believers in the 50-60s of the 19th century // Tyumen historical collection: collection. - Tyumen: Institute of History and Political Sciences of Tyumen State University, 2009. - P. 244-253. (unavailable link)
• Tobolsk diocese: Part one. Description of the area occupied by the Tobolsk diocese in geographical, historical and ethnographic terms. - Omsk: Printing house of A.K. Demidov, 1892. First department
  . Geographical and topographical information about the Tobolsk province. — 99 s.
• Section two
  .
  Historical and ethnographic information about the Tobolsk province; Section three
  . About the Akmola and Semipalatinsk regions, which are part of the Tobolsk diocese. — 79 p.

Literature

• “A brief history of the Tobolsk and Tomsk dioceses”, Irkutsk Diocesan Gazette
  , 1881, No. 37, 451.
• Tobolsk diocesan address-calendar for 1884
  / Comp. Rebrin A.A. - Tobolsk, 1884.
• Description of churches and monasteries of the Tobolsk diocese.
  (Tobolsk diocese; part 2., department 2) , Omsk, 1892.
• Tobolsk diocese.
  / In 2 parts [4 issues]. - Omsk: Printing house A.K. Demidova, 1892.
• Tobolsk diocesan address-calendar, published by order of the Tobolsk diocesan authorities on... [1895, 1897, 1901, 1903]
  , Tobolsk: Type. Eparch. Fraternities, 1895-1903.
• Omsk diocese.
  Experience in geographical and historical-statistical description of cities, villages, villages and settlements that are part of the Omsk diocese / Comp. priest K.F. Skalsky. - Omsk: Printing house A.K. Demidova, 1900.
• Reference book of the Tobolsk diocese for September 1, 1913
  . – Tobolsk: Type. Eparch. Brotherhoods, 1913. – 66 p.
• Mitruk, A. N., Patericon of the Siberian Saints
  [PhD thesis, Typescript]. - Zagorsk, TSL, 1989, 56, 88.
• Volkov, V.M., From the history of spiritual education and theological school in Siberia
  . - Tobolsk diocese, Tobolsk, 1993, 74.
• From the spiritual heritage of Metropolitan Bartholomew of Novosibirsk and Barnaul (diary, articles, messages).
  On the 40th anniversary of his death . - Novosibirsk, 1996, 34, 108.
• Abramov N.A. The city of Tyumen: From the history of the Tobolsk diocese
  . - Tyumen: Soft Design, 1998.
• The second baptism of Siberia.
  Chronicle of the revival of the Tobolsk diocese 1990-2010 / Under. ed. archbishop Demetrius (Kapalin). - Tobolsk, 2011.

Russian Orthodox Church

Part of the Tobolsk Metropolis

By the decision of the Holy Synod of May 30, 2011 (magazine No. 43), the Khanty-Mansi and Salekhard dioceses were separated from the diocese.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of October 2, 2013 (journal No. 110), the Ishim diocese was separated from the diocese; The Tobolsk diocese is included in the Tobolsk Metropolis.

Diocese today (as of January 2014)

Deaneries and deaneries

• Tobolsk - Archpriest Mikhail Denisov
• Tyumenskoye - Archpriest Andrey Sbitnev
• Yalutorovskoe - Archpriest Alexander Lemeshko

Monasteries

men's:

• Svyato-Znamensky 626125, Tyumen region, Tobolsk district, village. Abalak; tel.: (3456) 33-12-39, 33-13-85 i.o. Viceroy - Hieromonk Mikhey (Selyakov)
• Holy Trinity 625001, Tyumen, st. Communist, 10; tel. (3452) 22-12-49 vicar - Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevsky Tikhon

women's:

• Ioanno-Vvedensky 626123, Tyumen region, Tobolsk district, village. Priirtyshsky, st. Redikultseva, 5; tel., 33-80-37; fax (3456) 33-79-52 abbess - abbess Anna (Kurtova)
• Bogorodichno-Rozhdestvensky Ilyinsky 625002, Tyumen, st. 25 years of October, 29; tel.: (3452) 46-88-50, 46-16-60; fax, 46-19-65 abbess - abbess Nina (Skhulukhia)

There are 114 parishes in the diocese. Number of clerics - 120;
monastics - 55, including 28 monks and 27 nuns. Social institutions

• Charitable foundation for the revival of Orthodox traditions of Russian medicine in honor of the Great Martyr. and healer Panteleimon, Tyumen
• Social shelter for children “Otrada” at the Mother of God-Nativity of Elias Convent in Tyumen
• Shelter for girls at the Ioanno-Vvedensky convent in the village. Priirtyshsky
• Boarding house for boys at the Tobolsk Orthodox Theological Seminary
• Department of Social Ministry and Charity of the Tobolsk Diocese
• Social assistance society "Almshouse" Tyumen
• Sisterhood of Charity of the Holy Martyrs Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Nun Varvara at the Znamensky Cathedral in Tyumen
• Orthodox Society "Sobriety and Temperance" Tyumen
• Relief Society at the Elias Church. Bogandinskoe
• Temperance Society at the Elias Church. Bogandinskoe
• Sisterhood at the Assumption-St. Nicholas Church in Yalutorovsk
• Medical assistance at the Assumption-St. Nicholas Church in Yalutorovsk
• Pharmacy at the Assumption-St. Nicholas Church in Yalutorovsk
• Spiritual and educational center at the Assumption-St. Nicholas Church in Yalutorovsk
• Social assistance at the Mother of God of the Nativity of Ilyinsky convent in Tyumen
• House of temporary stay at the Holy Znamensky Abalaksky monastery. Abalak
• Outpatient medical service in Tyumen
• Diocesan courses for nurses in Tyumen
• Diocesan Society “In Defense of Life” Tyumen
• Diocesan Society "Mercy" Tyumen
• Diocesan Temperance Society in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God “Inexhaustible Chalice” Tyumen
• Diocesan rehabilitation center of the Tyumen diocese “Lesnaya Polyana”
• Diocesan Center for the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood in Tyumen
• Temperance Society "Wakefulness" at St. Nicholas Church in Tyumen
• Sisterhood at St. Nicholas Church in Tyumen

Mass media

printed publications:

• "Siberian Orthodox Newspaper" (monthly publication)
• magazine "Orthodox Enlightener" (published six times a year)
• children's magazine "Orthodox Sibiryachok" (published four times a year)
• Orthodox student magazine "Seminary" (published twice a year)

sites:

• Tobolsk-Tyumen diocese
• Church of St. Nicholas (Tyumen)

Educational establishments

• Tobolsk Orthodox Theological Seminary 626152, Tyumen region, Tobolsk, Red Square, Kremlin; e-mail; website https://www.tobolsk-tds.ru/
• Tyumen Orthodox Theological School 625001, Tyumen, st. Dimitrova, 3; tel.; website www.tdu.cerkov.ru
• Tobolsk Orthodox Gymnasium 626152, Tobolsk, st. Lenskaya, 9; tel.; e-mail; website https://pg-tobolsk.ru/
• Tyumen Orthodox Gymnasium Tyumen, st. Zatyumenskaya, 16a, st. Lunacharsky, 1; tel.: (3452) 43-01-29, 62-75-29
• Yalutorovskaya Orthodox Gymnasium Yalutorovsk, st. Pervomayskaya, 5; tel. (34535) 3-26-70, e-mail

There are 62 Sunday schools in the diocese, including 51 for children and 11 for adults, with 1,951 students.