Diocese of Kursk Курская епархия | |
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Location | |
Territory | Kursk Oblast |
Deaneries | 13 |
Headquarters | Kursk |
Information | |
Denomination | Eastern Orthodox |
Sui iuris church | Russian Orthodox Church |
Established | 17 October 1799 |
Cathedral | Znamensky Cathedral |
Language | Old Church Slavonic |
Current leadership | |
Governance | Eparchy |
Bishop | Herman (Moralin) since 17 August 2004 |
Website | |
курская-епархия |
The Diocese of Kursk (Russian: Курская епархия) is a diocese (eparchy) of the Russian Orthodox Church, uniting parishes and monasteries in the middle part of the Kursk region (within the borders of Belovsky, Glushkovsky, Zolotukhinsky, Korenevsky, Kursk, Kurchatovsky, Medvensky, Oboyansky, Oktyabrsky, Ponyrovsky, Rylsky and Sudzhansky districts). It is part of the Kursk Metropolitanate.