| Jurisdiction: | Diocese |
| Minsk | |
| Local: | Мінская епархія |
| Established: | 13 April 1793 |
| Country: | Belarus |
| Territory: | Minsk, Minsk District |
| Subdivisions: | 10 deaneries |
| Area Km2: | 2,348 |
| Parishes: | 94 |
| Cathedral: | Holy Spirit Cathedral |
| Bishop: | Vienijamin (Tupieka) |
| Bishop Title: | Metropolitan |
The Diocese of Minsk (ru|Минская епархия; be|Мінская епархія) is an eparchy of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, which is an exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The diocese was established by the Supreme decree of 13 April 1793. It was established for the regions, which became part of the Russian Empire at the second partition of Poland, instead of Turov diocese, remained until 1798 in the conduct of the Kiev Metropolitanate, and also the bishoprics in Slutsk, formerly frontiers of the Kingdom of Poland. Initially, the Department was located in Slutsk, was moved to Minsk by decree on 12 April 1795, but according to Stepan Runkevich, in fact, it moved to Minsk only on 3 September 1799. Soon the Minsk diocese also included the Lithuanian regions that were regions that were included in Russia during the third partition of Poland. Thus it became extremely large, and the reunion with the Orthodox Church of one and a half million Western Russian Uniates made it even larger. Already in 1795, it was found necessary to separate the independent of Bratslav diocese and Zhytomyr vicar see from the Minsk diocese, with the latter becoming independent on 16 October 1799.
In 1832, the territory of the Vilna Governorate moved from Diocese of Minsk to the newly established Diocese of Polotsk, and in 1840, after the second unification of the Uniates with the Synod of Polotsk, the Minsk diocese entered the borders of the Minsk Governorate.
Since 1922, the Minsk diocese has been a Metropolitan see. In the second half of the Soviet period, it occupied the territory of the entire Byelorussian SSR. On 6 July 1989, the Mogilev, Pinsk and Polotsk dioceses were separated from the Minsk diocese, after which the Minsk and Grodno regions remained under the jurisdiction of the Minsk see. On 18 February 1992, the Grodno and Novogrudok dioceses were also separated, after which the borders of the Minsk diocese coincided with the borders of the Minsk Region.
On 23 October 2014, the independent Barysaw, Maladzyechna and Slutsk dioceses were separated from the Minsk diocese, which left the city of Minsk and the Minsk District under the jurisdiction of the Minsk diocese. At the same time, the Minsk diocese became part of the newly-formed Minsk metropolis.