The Center for the Old Russian Liturgical Tradition of the Tikhvin Diocese began its official activities in the St. Petersburg Metropolis.

Tikhvin and Lodeynopol diocese

- diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in the administrative boundaries of Boksitogorsk, Volkhov, Kirishi, Kirov, Lodeynopolsky, Podporozhsky, Tikhvin districts of the Leningrad region[1]. It is part of the St. Petersburg Metropolitanate.

Story

The Tikhvin See was established as a vicariate of the Novgorod diocese in 1907. Until 1921, the Khutyn Monastery near Novgorod served as the residence of the bishops of Tikhvin. It was suppressed in the 1920s, but was revived 40 years later, as a vicariate of the Leningrad diocese.

On March 12, 2013, by decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Tikhvin diocese was formed, separating its territory from the St. Petersburg diocese and including the diocese in the newly formed St. Petersburg Metropolis.

Used materials

• Diocese page on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church:
• Page of the site “Russian Orthodoxy”
• PSTGU database page Bishops and dioceses of the period of persecution of the Church (1917-1955)
  :
• Journal No. 16 of the meeting of the Holy Synod of March 12, 2013:
• Directory of the St. Petersburg Diocese
  , St. Petersburg: Information Department of the St. Petersburg Diocese, 2015, p. 2-3.

[1] Directory of the St. Petersburg Diocese

, St. Petersburg: Information Department of the St. Petersburg Diocese, 2015, p. 3.

Bishops

Tikhvin Vicariate of the Novgorod Diocese

• Feodosius (Feodosiev) (September 3, 1907 - February 15, 1908)
• Andronik (Nikolsky) (March 14, 1908 - March 8, 1913)
• Alexy (Simansky) (April 28, 1913 - February 21, 1921)
• Anthony (Demyansky) (November 11, 1923 - ? approx. 1926)

Tikhvin Vicariate of St. Petersburg

(until 1991 -
Leningrad
)
diocese

• Filaret (Vakhromeev) (October 24, 1965 - May 14, 1966)
• Mikhail (Mudyugin) (November 6, 1966 - July 30, 1968)
• German (Timofeev) (December 6, 1968 - June 25, 1970)
• Meliton (Soloviev) (July 26, 1970 - November 4, 1986)
• Proclus (Khazov) (October 18, 1987 - September 13, 1989)
• Simon (Gethea) (October 3, 1993 - December 27, 1995)
• Konstantin (Goryanov) (July 17, 1996 - October 6, 2008)

Tikhvin diocese

• Mstislav (Dyachina) (from March 12, 2013)

Activity

The parishes and monasteries are headed by the ruling bishop (since March 2013), Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeynopol Mstislav (Dyachina). All 8 deaneries are under his leadership:

• Monastyrskoe;
• Shlisselburgskoe;
• Kirishskoe;
• Volkhovskoe;
• Boksitogorskoe;
• Tikhvinskoe;
• Podporozhskoe;
• Lodeynopolskoe.

Bishop of Tikhvin Mstislav

The total number of priests in the diocese is 97 people, and deacons 21 people. Effective activities are ensured by special diocesan institutions, among them:

1. Commission for the Canonization of Saints;
2. Missionary Department;
3. Department of Catechesis and Education;
4. Youth Affairs Department;
5. Pilgrimage service.

Educational work is carried out in the region and social and humanitarian assistance is provided to the population. There are Sunday schools for children and adults, rehabilitation centers and shelters for children at churches and monasteries.

All news and announcements are published in a timely manner on the official website, which belongs to the diocesan media.

Monasteries

Active

• Vvedensky Tikhvin Monastery (women; Tikhvin)
• Assumption Tikhvin Monastery (male; Tikhvin)
• Trinity Alexander-Svirsky Monastery (male; Svirskoye village, Lodeynopolsky district)
• Antoniyevo-Dymsky Monastery (male; Krasny Bronevik village, Boksitogorsky district)
• Trinity Zelenetsky Monastery (male; Zelenets village, Volkhov district)
• Vvedeno-Oyatsky Monastery (women; Lodeynopolsky district)
• Staraya Ladoga Nikolsky Monastery (male; village of Staraya Ladoga, Volkhov district)
• Staraya Ladoga Assumption Monastery (women; village of Staraya Ladoga, Volkhov district)
• Nikolo-Storozhensky Monastery (male; Storozhno village, Volkhov district)
• Intercession Tervenichesky Monastery (women; Tervenichi village, Lodeynopolsky district)

Pre-existing

• Leprudskaya hermitage (male, near the village of Radogoshch, Boksitogorsky district)[2]
• Nikolo-Medvedsky Monastery (Novaya Ladoga, Volkhov district)
• Nikolo-Besedny Monastery (Tikhvin, male)[3]
• Nikolo-Mavrina Borovinsky hermitage, existed from the middle. XVI century until 1764, (Tikhvin, Borovinka village)[4]
• Padansky Vvedensky Monastery (women; Podporozhye district)

Deanery districts of the diocese

The diocese is divided into 4 territorial deaneries, as well as a separate deanery of monasteries.

Geography

• Tikhvin and Boksitogorsky districts
• Tikhvin, Boksitogorsk, s. Gorka, Efimovsky village, Zaborye village, village. Isakovo, Listvenka village, s. Novo-Andreevo, Ozerevo village, Pikalevo, Podborovye village, village. Streams, p. Somino, Shugozero village

• Novaya Ladoga, Volkhov, Vyndin Ostrov village, Gorka Khvalovskaya village, village. Zagubie, village Issad, village Kiselnya, village Nadkopanye, village Pasha, village. Rogozha, s. Staraya Ladoga, Storozhno village, Syasstroy, Chasovenskoye village

• Kirishi

• Kirovsk, Vasilkovo village, Voytolovo village, Lavrovo village, village. Lezye, Lukinskoye village, Mga village, Nazia village, Otradnoye, Pavlovo-on-Neva village, Petrovshchina village, Priladozhsky village, st. Sologubovka, Chernoe village, Shlisselburg, Shum village

• Lodeynoye Pole, Akulova Gora village, Alekhovshchina, s. Vinnitsa, Voznesenye village, Kurpovo village, Lyugovichi village, Pidma village, Podporozhye, Ponomarevo village, Posad village, Soginitsy village, Turygino village, Khmelezero village, Chikozero village, Yaroslavichy village

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Excerpt characterizing the Tikhvin diocese

- Natasha, that’s complete nonsense! – she said, still hoping that it was a joke. - Well, that's nonsense! “I’m telling you the truth,” Natasha said angrily. – I came to ask what to do, and you tell me: “nonsense”... The Countess shrugged. “If it’s true that Monsieur Denisov proposed to you, then tell him that he’s a fool, that’s all.” “No, he’s not a fool,” Natasha said offendedly and seriously. - Well, what do you want? You are all in love these days. Well, you’re in love, so marry him! – the countess said, laughing angrily. - With God blessing! - No, mom, I’m not in love with him, I must not be in love with him. - Well, tell him so. - Mom, are you angry? You’re not angry, my dear, what’s my fault? - No, what about it, my friend? If you want, I’ll go and tell him,” said the countess, smiling. - No, I’ll do it myself, just teach me. Everything is easy for you,” she added, responding to her smile. - If only you could see how he told me this! After all, I know that he didn’t mean to say this, but he said it by accident. - Well, you still have to refuse. - No, don't. I feel so sorry for him! He is so cute. - Well, then accept the offer. “And then it’s time to get married,” the mother said angrily and mockingly. - No, mom, I feel so sorry for him. I don't know how I'll say it. “You don’t have anything to say, I’ll say it myself,” said the countess, indignant that they dared to look at this little Natasha as if she were big. “No, no way, I myself, and you listen at the door,” and Natasha ran through the living room into the hall, where Denisov was sitting on the same chair, by the clavichord, covering his face with his hands. He jumped up at the sound of her light steps. “Natalie,” he said, approaching her with quick steps, “decide my fate.” It's in your hands! - Vasily Dmitrich, I feel so sorry for you!... No, but you are so nice... but don’t... this... otherwise I will always love you. Denisov bent over her hand, and she heard strange sounds, incomprehensible to her. She kissed his black, matted, curly head. At this time, the hasty noise of the countess's dress was heard. She approached them. “Vasily Dmitrich, I thank you for the honor,” said the countess in an embarrassed voice, but which seemed stern to Denisov, “but my daughter is so young, and I thought that you, as a friend of my son, would turn to me first.” In this case, you would not put me in the need of refusal. “Gafinya,” Denisov said with downcast eyes and a guilty look, he wanted to say something else and faltered. Natasha could not calmly see him so pitiful. She began to sob loudly. “Countess, I am guilty before you,” Denisov continued in a broken voice, “but know that I adore your daughter and your entire family so much that I would give two lives...” He looked at the countess and, noticing her stern face... “Well, farewell, lady,” he said, kissed her hand and, without looking at Natasha, walked out of the room with quick, decisive steps. The next day, Rostov saw off Denisov, who did not want to stay in Moscow for another day. Denisov was seen off at the gypsies by all his Moscow friends, and he did not remember how they put him in the sleigh and how they took him to the first three stations. After Denisov’s departure, Rostov, waiting for the money that the old count could not suddenly collect, spent another two weeks in Moscow, without leaving the house, and mainly in the young ladies’ room. Sonya was more tender and devoted to him than before. She seemed to want to show him that his loss was a feat for which she now loves him even more; but Nikolai now considered himself unworthy of her. He filled the girls' albums with poems and notes, and without saying goodbye to any of his acquaintances, finally sending all 43 thousand and receiving Dolokhov's signature, he left at the end of November to catch up with the regiment, which was already in Poland. After his explanation with his wife, Pierre went to St. Petersburg. In Torzhok there were no horses at the station, or the caretaker did not want them. Pierre had to wait. Without undressing, he lay down on a leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big feet in warm boots on this table and thought. – Will you order the suitcases to be brought in? Make the bed, would you like some tea? – asked the valet. Pierre did not answer because he did not hear or see anything. He began to think at the last station and continued to think about the same thing - about something so important that he did not pay any attention to what was happening around him. Not only was he not interested in the fact that he would arrive in St. Petersburg later or earlier, or whether he would or would not have a place to rest at this station, but it was still in comparison with the thoughts that occupied him now whether he would stay for a few days. hours or a lifetime at this station. The caretaker, the caretaker, the valet, the woman with Torzhkov sewing came into the room, offering their services. Pierre, without changing his position with his legs raised, looked at them through his glasses, and did not understand what they could need and how they could all live without resolving the questions that occupied him. And he was preoccupied with the same questions from the very day he returned from Sokolniki after the duel and spent the first, painful, sleepless night; only now, in the solitude of the journey, did they take possession of him with special power. No matter what he started to think about, he returned to the same questions that he could not solve, and could not stop asking himself. It was as if the main screw on which his whole life was held had turned in his head. The screw did not go in further, did not go out, but spun, not grabbing anything, still on the same groove, and it was impossible to stop turning it. The caretaker came in and humbly began to ask His Excellency to wait only two hours, after which he would give courier for His Excellency (what will happen, will happen). The caretaker was obviously lying and only wanted to get extra money from the passerby. “Was it bad or good?” Pierre asked himself. “For me it’s good, for another person passing through it’s bad, but for him it’s inevitable, because he has nothing to eat: he said that an officer beat him for this. And the officer nailed him because he needed to go faster. And I shot at Dolokhov because I considered myself insulted, and Louis XVI was executed because he was considered a criminal, and a year later they killed those who executed him, also for something. What's wrong? What well? What should you love, what should you hate? Why live, and what am I? What is life, what is death? What force controls everything?” he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions, except one, not a logical answer, not to these questions at all. This answer was: “If you die, everything will end. You’ll die and find out everything, or you’ll stop asking.” But it was also scary to die.