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The postal block "Belarusian Orthodox Church. 1025 anniversary of the Polotsk Diocese "was released on October 26, 2017.

The Polotsk Eparchy dates back to the year 992, when the episcopal chair was established here in the White Russia.

Chronicle mention of the first Orthodox Polotsk temple - the Blessed Virgin - dates from 1007. In the middle of the XI century. in Polotsk was built the fourth in the Christian world St. Sophia Cathedral. Hence the great-granddaughter of Prince Vladimir Princess Predislav, the holy Monk Euphrosyne, Mother Superior of Polotsk, began her righteous path.

The Polotsk diocese, which survived and flourished in the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, and uniatism at the end of the 16th century, and the restoration of the diocese from the mid-nineteenth century, and the cessation of its existence by the beginning of World War II, in the year of its 1000th anniversary (1992) independence. Its borders were defined within 10 administrative districts of the Vitebsk region and the cities of Polotsk and Novopolotsk.