The Diocese of Belgorod and Stary Oskol (Russian: Белгородская и Старооскольская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church. The bishop of Belgorod c. 1244 was a certain Peter who served as vicar of the vacant metropolitanate of Kiev between late 1240 and 1246. He attended the First Council of Lyon, perhaps to discuss a union of the churches, and answered questions concerning the Mongols that are recorded in the Tractatus de ortu Tartarorum. The history of the diocese of Belgorod formally begins with 1657, when it was "discovered" the Chair and Metropolitan Pitirim Krutitskii received the title of Metropolitan of Belgorod but did not go to Belgorod, since the appointment was to "banish dangerous for Nikon Metropolitan" from Moscow, where he was a patriarchal vicar, on the outskirts, because the diocese in the year really organized and has not been. Reasons for the binding of the Belgorod region to krutitskoy Metropolis was: her territory once included the Golden-Sarskaya (Sarskaja, Podonskuyu) Bishop , which was once part (southern part) consisted of Belgorod and Sloboda. More information...
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