Russian Orthodox Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe

The Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe (Russian: Лондонская и Западно-Европейская епархия, romanized: Londonskaya i Zapadno-Yevropyeyskaya yeparkhiya) is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), encompassing all of western Europe (from Italy to Ireland) but with communities primarily on territories of the United Kingdom, Switzerland and France.

[3] The origins of the Western Europe Diocese stretch back to the founding of the first Russian Orthodox parishes in Switzerland which led to the construction of the Geneva Cathedral in 1863.

[4] Founded as the Archdiocese of Paris and Western Europe, it has had a varied history, being reorganised several times, with its headquarters moving to Brussels, to Geneva and, most recently, to London.

[5] The Diocese of Great Britain was founded in 1929 under Bishop Nicholas (Karpoff) of London, as part of the Archdiocese of Paris and Western Europe.

The Brotherhood refused to accept the restoration of canonical relations between the ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate and departed in January 2007 for the Old Calendarists Greek Orthodox Synod in Resistance, along with the Holy Annunciation Convent in Willesden, London NW6 which had been founded by St John the Wonderworker.