Diocese of Baku and Azerbaijan

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Diocese of Baku and Azerbaijan (

Church of Michael Archangel also exist in Baku.[1]

History

During the 19th century, the Georgian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church included the territory of modern-day Azerbaijan

Historically,

Şamaxı previously.[1] Since the entire region of Caucasus was under the Russian rule, jurisdiction of Georgian Exarchate was expanded, encompassing territories of modern-day Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In 1905, Eparchy of Baku, nowadays Baku and Caspian Eparchy, was established.[1]

In the spring of 1917, the Georgian Patriarchate was recreated, but only for the Georgian part of the Exarchate. Russian Orthodox Church and its exarch Platon (Rozhdestvensky) kept their jurisdiction over non-Georgian parts of the Caucasian region, and for those territories Caucasian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was created in the summer of 1917, with metropolitan Platon of Tbilisi and Baku as Exarch of Caucasus. In the spring of 1918, he was succeeded by metropolitan Cyril (Smirnov) as new metropolitan of Tbilisi and Baku, and Exarch of Caucasus, but after his transfer to another post in the spring of 1920 no exarch was appointed.[3]

There used to be an Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Baku. In the Soviet area, there was persecution of Christians.[1] In 1944, a Russian Orthodox church was reopened in Baku.[1] In 2011, ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the local Russian eparchy (diocese) was adjusted to political borders of Azerbaijan, and official name was changed to Russian Orthodox Eparchy of Baku and Azerbaijan.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Православие в Азербайджане / Православие.Ru Archived October 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ISBN 1598849484
  3. ^ Vladimir Moss, The Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century
  4. ^ ЖУРНАЛЫ заседания Священного Синода от 22 марта 2011 года

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