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Estonian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

Orthodox Church of Estonia
(Moskva Patriarhaadi igeusu Eesti Kirik / )
Current primate Metropolitan Cornelius
Headquarters Tallinn, Estonia
Primary territory Estonia
Territorial extension -
Rite Byzantine
Language (s) liturgical (s) Slavonic
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Orthodox Cathedral in Tallinn

The Orthodox Church of Estonia is a self-administered jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church in Estonia , canonically attached to the Patriarchate of Moscow and All Russia. The head of the Church carries the title of Metropolitan of Tallinn and all Estonia, with residence in Tallinn (current owner: Cornelius History

  • 1817 Creation of the Vicariate of Reval (Tallinn) depending on the Diocese of St. Petersburg
  • 1865 Relocation of the Vicariate of the Diocese of Reval Riga
  • 1917 Independence of Estonia
  • 1920 Statute of autonomy granted by the Patriarchate of Moscow
  • 1940 Occupation of Baltic states by the Soviet Union
  • 1941 Integration of the Orthodox Church of Estonia in the Patriarchate of Moscow established a Exarchate for Orthodox Baltic States headquartered in Vilnius in Lithuania
  • 1945 Restoration of the diocese of Tallinn
  • 1991 Independence of Estonia
  • 1993 Confirmation of the status of autonomy from the Patriarchate of Moscow
  • 1996 "Agreements Zurich Interinstitutional the status quo and the co-existence of two Orthodox jurisdictions in the same territory (contrary to Orthodox ecclesiology)

Organization

The Church has 31 parishes ( 2007 ).

It is administered according to its statutes, by Metropolitan collabotation in the Holy Synod. The latter is elected by the Council of the Church.

The current primate, Cornelius (born Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Yacob on 19 June 1924 in Tallinn in the family of an army colonel Tsarist Estonia emigrated after the Russian Revolution ) is in place since 1990.

Monasticism

The Convent of the Dormition of Phtitsa to Kureme (between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Peipsi ) was founded in 1891. Since 1990 , he was placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Moscow. The monastery has around 150 nuns ( 2007 ).

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