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Statistics testify to increase in religious organizations in post-soviet Russia

PETERBURG'S NUMBERS

Peterburgskie vedomosti, 5 March 2015

 

The St. Petersburg diocese unites 195 parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church. It also counts 126 attached churches and 22 monastery churches, 103 chapels, and six prayer rooms. Four bishops serve in the diocese along with 651 ordained ministers, of whom 498 are priests and 153 are deacons.

 

In all on the territory of the city more than 300 religious associations are functioning. Of these, five are parishes of Old Believers, one parish each are Orthodox of the United Faith [Edinoverie] and the Georgian church, two each of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormons, 19 are Evangelical Lutheran and 7 are Roman Catholic churches, 13 associations of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, 23 of Pentecostals, 6 churches of Seventh-Day Adventists, and three Muslim, five Buddhist, and nine Jewish communities. In St. Petersburg there also function parishes of the Salvation Army, and the Anglican, Reform, and Dutch churches. (tr. by PDS, posted 6 March 2015)


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