Diocese of Tver

Diocese of Tver and Kashin
Resurrection Cathedral in Tver, September 2010
Location
Headquarters	Tver
Information
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox
Sui iuris church	Russian Orthodox Church
Established	1271
Language	Old Church Slavonic
Governance	Eparchy
Website
tvereparhia.ru

The Diocese of Tver and Kashin (Russian: Тверская и Кашинская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tver Oblast and is one of the oldest dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Tver diocese separated from the Polotsk diocese at the Grand Prince Yaroslav Yaroslavich no later than 1271. In 1589, it installed an Archdiocese.

Until 1928, it was called the Diocese of Tver and Kashin. From 1928 to 1943 and from 1950 to 1990, it was the Kalinin and Kashinskaya diocese. From 1943 to 1944 - it was the Diocese of Smolensk and Kalinin. From 1944 to 1950 it was Kalinin and Velikolukskaya Diocese, and then the Diocese of Tver and Kashin again in 1990. On December 28, 2011 from the Tver diocese marked Bezhetskaya and Rzhevskaya diocese, within the Tver region formed Diocese of Tver, which includes Bezhetskaya, Rzhev and Tver diocese.

Tver (1271)