Diocese of Kazan
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The Diocese of Kazan (Russian: Казанская епархия, Tatar: Казан епархиясе) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church on the administrative boundaries of Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny in the Republic of Tatarstan.
History
The Kazan diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church was established on April 3, 1555, three years after the conquest of the Khanate of Kazan. The first ruling bishop was the abbot of the Tver Selizharov monastery, Gury, who went to Kazan with archimandrites Barsanuphius and Herman of Kazan and Svyazhsk.
The most important events in the life of the Kazan diocese were the discovery of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in 1579, the participation of Kazan residents in the militia of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky with the blessing of Patriarch Hermogenes, the former Metropolitan of Kazan, and the all-Russian glorification of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
During 1741, the missionaries managed to baptize 9,159 people throughout the province. Tatars and Bashkirs were only 143 among them. One way or another, missionary work in the Kazan region was rather sluggish, and the activities of the Kazan Theological Academy were reduced mainly to an in-depth study of the linguistic and cultural aspects of the existence of the peoples of the East.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Kazan branch of the Bible Society was opened to translate the Holy Scriptures into local languages. In 1814, the New Testament was translated into Tatar, and in 1819, the first of the Old Testament books (the Book of Genesis). In 1847, a translation committee was opened at the Kazan Theological Academy, and in 1854 - three missionary departments.
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