The '''Pskov Orthodox Mission''' was a pastoral-missionary institution for the revival of [[Orthodox Church]] life in North-Western Russia, covering the vast territory of the three dioceses of Leningrad, [[Pskov]] and [[Novgorod]], as well as the territory of the three neighbouring Baltic republics(that is to say, in the 'Liberated Regions of Russia'), during their occupation by Nazi Germany between 1941-1944.<ref group="note">The Pskov lands are often called the “western outpost” of Russian Orthodoxy. The neighboring Baltic countries, the majority of whose population professes either Catholicism or Protestantism, for centuries was a “missionary service territory” for the Russian Orthodox Church. And in the last century, during the Great Patriotic War, Pskov residents (according to many historians – not by accident) for a few years became one of the strongholds of Orthodox revival, which had virtually been defeated in the Soviet Union by that time. This revival was the object of the Pskov mission that existed from 1941-1944.<br>