Kryvyi Rih Eparchy

Eparchy of Kryvyi Rih

Location
Territory	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Headquarters	Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
Information
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox
Sui iuris church	Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
Established	1996
Language	Church Slavonic Russian Ukrainian
Current leadership
Bishop	Archibishop Ephraim
Website
eparhia.com.ua

Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol diocese - Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) centered in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine; includes the western districts of Dnepropetrovsk region. Cathedral city - Krivoy Rog. Cathedral - Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Krivoy Rog), Transfiguration (Nikopol).

Founded on July 27, 1996 by decision of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the release of the Dnepropetrovsk diocese. Decision of the Holy Synod on September 12, 1996 by Bishop Krivoy Rog and Nikopol was defined as Archimandrite Ephraim, inhabitants of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

For ten years, the number of parishes in the territory of the diocese increased from 85 to 224, and clergy from 98 to 202.

References

Monasteries and Convents of Kryvyi Rih Diocese — UOC Synod Commission for Monasteries
Google-map: Monasteries and Convents of Kryvyi Rih Diocese — UOC Synod Commission for Monasteries

Eparchies of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

Balta Berdyansk Bila Tserkva Boryspil Vinnytsia Voznesensk Volyn Volodymyr-Volyn Horlivka Dzhankoi Kamianske Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Zhytomyr Zaporizhia Ivano-Frankivsk Izyum Kamianets-Podilskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Konotop Kremenchuk Krivyi Rih Luhansk Lviv Mykolaiv Mohyliv-Podilsky Mukachevo Nizhyn Novo Kakhovka Ovruch Odessa Oleksandriya Poltava Rivne Rovenky Romny Sarny Severodonetsk Simferopol Sums Ternopil Tulchyn Uman Feodosiya Kharkov Kherson Khmelnytsky Khust Cherkasy Bukovyna Chernivtsi Chernihiv Shepetivka

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