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Eparchies and metropolitanates of the Russian Orthodox Church

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ3725311 ↗
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This is the list of the metropolitanates and eparchies (dioceses) of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Russia

Eparchies and metropolitanates of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Federation:

Belarus

Eparchies of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus:

Ukraine

Eparchies of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (and its predecessor Exarchate of Ukraine): In May 2022 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) itself announced its separation from the Moscow Patriarchate and excluded ‘any provisions that at least somehow hinted at or indicated the connection with Moscow’ (following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine); the Russian Orthodox Church continues to claim jurisdiction over Ukraine.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eparchies and metropolitanates of the Russian Orthodox Church” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.