Where it all started

The first information about the Orthodox community of Uzhgorod dates back to 1575. Then there was talk of a parish house, and since 1578 - i about the temple not far from Maly Uzh, on the southern part of the island Margarets Orthodox in the city protocols of 1642, 1645, 1646 the parish is called the "Russian Church". After the Uzhhorod Union In 1646, it became Greek Catholic. Hence Orthodox traditions nurtured only by the Greek minority of the city. In the Czechoslovak period, Orthodox communities grew as mushrooms In 1921, an Orthodox committee was registered in Uzhgorod, where locals and emigrants entered. A convert became a priest Mykhailo Meigesh, who converted from the Greek Catholic faith in orthodoxy Then Dmytro Vladykov, Vsevolod Kolomatskyi, Veniamin served the community (Knyazev), Averkii (Taushev), Vasyl (Pronin), Vasiliy Samosh, Georgy Stankaninets. The Orthodox prayed in a suitable room in the school for the deaf and dumb - on the corner.