[1] On October 27 (October 16, old style), 1799, the Saratov and Penza Orthodox Diocese was formed, but due to the absence of a bishop's house and premises for a consistory in the provincial city of Saratov, the department was located in the district city of Penza, where there were such buildings.

Starting from December 4, 1803, the diocese began to be called Penza and Saratov, and from November 12, 1828, it already acquired an independent status and began to be called Penza and Saransk, and it retained this name until 1991, when a separate Saransk and Saratov diocese was separated from its composition.

[2] Despite the terror unleashed by the Bolshevik regime against the clergy and believers, during the Great Patriotic War, Orthodox residents of Penza took a large part in replenishing the country's Defense Fund (they contributed 500 thousand rubles to the tank column named after Dimitri Donskoy alone [3]) The diocese was revived in the spring of 1944, with two operating churches (in 1948 their number in the Penza Oblast increased to 32).

[5] Moreover, the educational level was very high - in 1986, among the Penza ministers of the Orthodox cult, three were candidates of theology.

[6] In 2000, the government of Penza Oblast transferred 176 churches to the diocese, the vast majority of which are in disrepair or dilapidated condition.