{"id":670,"date":"2008-12-16T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2008\/12\/russian-orthodox-church-stats.html"},"modified":"2008-12-16T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T08:32:00","slug":"russian-orthodox-church-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2008\/12\/russian-orthodox-church-stats.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian Orthodox Church Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/_iTncioBQZNk\/SUe9mGXE5zI\/AAAAAAAACcI\/JYW7vQ9WIHs\/s1600-h\/Amondson+Russian+Church.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 328px\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/_iTncioBQZNk\/SUe9mGXE5zI\/AAAAAAAACcI\/JYW7vQ9WIHs\/s400\/Amondson+Russian+Church.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><span style=\"font-size:180%\"><span>I<\/span><\/span>n Bishop HILARION\u2019s e-publication <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Europaica<\/span><\/span> the following new statistics of the Russian Orthodox Church are reported: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of churches and chapels acting in Moscow has increased from 851 to 872 since December 2007, Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutistsy and Kolomna told a meeting of the capital\u2019s clergy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.  He also cited the data saying that about 1,838 clergymen are working in the capital today (last year their number equaled to 1,770). The Russian Orthodox Church has 157 dioceses (compared to 142 last year), 203 bishops including 149 ruling bishops and 48 vicar bishops. The total number of clergy in the Russian Church equals to 30,670.  The number of Sunday schools in the dioceses increased by one thousand \u2013 from 10,141 to 11,051 while the number of parishes has grown from 27,942 to 29,268.  Today the Russian Orthodox Church has 804 monasteries, including 142 monasteries and 153 nunneries in the CIS-countries and three monasteries and three nunneries in foreign countries.  Also functioning are 203 representations (metochia) and 65 hermitages.  Besides, there are 25 stauropegial monasteries (under direct subordination to the patriarch). The Russian Church Abroad has 16 monasteries and 9 nunneries.  The number of Russian Orthodox theological schools equals to 87.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">For a free subscription to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: italic\">Europaica<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">, go <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxeurope.org\/subscribe.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Taken from the daily email of the DOWAMA Clergy Brotherhood.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artshopgallery.com\/Gene%20Amondson.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><br><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bishop HILARION\u2019s e-publication Europaica the following new statistics of the Russian Orthodox Church are reported: \u201cThe number of churches and chapels acting in Moscow has increased from 851 to 872 since December 2007, Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutistsy and Kolomna told a meeting of the capital\u2019s clergy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. 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