• Description of churches and parishes of the Minsk diocese

    MOZYR

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    I. The Locality. Mozyr is located in the deep Palesse. Palesse occupies a vast area: it encompasses most of the Pinsk district, part of the Bobruysk and Rechitsa districts, part of the Ovruch district in Volyn Province, and part of the Radomyshl district in Kiev Province, but the center of Palesse is the Mozyr district. According to ancient accounts, this entire huge area was once flooded by waters, forming one continuous lake connected by one of its channels to the Baltic Sea. At present, most of this area is covered with sands, swamps, lakes, forests, and shrubs. From the lakes…

  • Religion - Roman Catholic Confession

    LELCHYTSY PARISH

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    In the Lelechitsy volost (district), there were 19 churches, three synagogues, and a church (likely meaning a Catholic church), which had 53 clergy. From detailed records of Roman Catholic parishes in the Mozyr district in 1867, it follows that a significant part of the population of the Buinavichy, Lelechitsy, and Tonezh volosts were also Catholic believers. Thus, in the Mozyr deanery of the Petrykau parish church (within the Orthodox parishes of the Buinavichy Mother of God, Astrazhany Intercession, Simanichy in the name of Paraskeva, and Lelechitsy Trinity churches), as well as in the Pinsk deanery of the David-Haradok church (within…