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unusual facts about eparchy



Bessarabia Governorate

The Metropolitanate of Bessarabia was an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church and after Bănulescu-Bodoni's death, it became an agent in the state policy of Russification.

Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic

On October 29, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Father Kurt Burnette, until then the Rector of Saints Cyril and Methodius Seminary, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (since October 2012), as Eparch (Bishop)-elect of the Eparchy, succeeding William Skurla, who had become the leader of the Byzantine Catholic (Ruthenian) Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, the U.S. headquarters of this particular Eastern-rite Catholic church.

Cudworth, Saskatchewan

There is an annual pilgrimage every year on the tenth Sunday after Easter and is the official pilgrimage of the Saskatoon Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy.

Diocese of Chișinău

Following the annexation of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire in 1812 the Russian Orthodox Church established the Eparchy of Chişinău and Khotin under Metropolitan Gavril (Bănulescu-Bodoni) to care for the region's Orthodox Christians.

Eparchy of Banat

It is mostly situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, while the eparchy also include a small south-western part of Banat that belongs to the City of Belgrade as well as village of Ostrovo that belongs to the city of Požarevac.

Eparchy of Raška and Prizren

The Eparchy directly serves the Serbian Orthodox of Kosovo and the lower Raška District (Tutin and Novi Pazar).

Eparchy of Šabac

In the end of that century, the seat of the eparchy was moved from Valjevo to Šabac.

There are 8 monasteries that belonging to the eparchy: Ilinje, Kaona, Petkovica, Radovašnica, Čitluk, Čokešina, Soko, and Tronoša.

In 1831, the large Eparchy of Valjevo was divided into 3 separate eparchies: the Eparchy of Valjevo (which was renamed to the Eparchy of Šabac), the Eparchy of Užice, and the Eparchy of Zvornik.

Eparchy of Žiča

Eparchy of Žiča is one of the eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and is seated in Kraljevo, in the Žiča monastery.

Joseph Kallarangatt

He currently serves as the Bishop of the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Palai (also known as Pala), which has the largest concentration of Syro-Malabar Catholics.

Northern Dvina River

From 14th century, Kholmogory was the main trading harbor on the Northern Dvina, but in 17th century it lost this distinction to Arkhangelsk (even though the seat of the Kholmogory and Vaga Eparchy, from 1732 known as Kholmogory and Archangelogorod Eparchy, which had jurisdiction over all Northern Russia including the Solovetsky Monastery, was located in Kholmogory until 1762.

Religion in Egypt

The eparchy of Egypt is looked after by a Protosyncellus, and has between 35,000 and 50,000 ex-patriates in Europe, North and South America, and Australia.

Serbian Catholic Church

Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia and Montenegro, a Byzantine Rite exarchate erected from the Eparchy of Križevci

Velyki Birky

On December 21, 2003 the bishop of the Ternopil-Zboriv eparchy, Mykhaylo Sabryha, and Abbot Gregory Planchak of the Monastery of St. Theodor the Studite blessed the women’s monastery of the Presentation of Mary in Velyki Birky.


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