According to the clerical report of 1876, the church was authorized for construction in March 1863, laid on June 27 of the same year, and consecrated on January 18, 1871, with the blessing of Bishop Mitrophan of Orenburg and Ufa. This stone building without a bell tower was built by the efforts of the parishioners with the support of a collection book issued by the Orenburg Spiritual Consistory. The church has one altar in honor of the Ascension of the Lord. There are no vestments or church utensils, and land for the clergy has not yet been allocated. The clergy houses are public. The clergy staff includes one rector and one psalmist, who do not receive a salary and live on voluntary donations from the parishioners. The maintenance of the clergy is very modest, consisting of state peasants.
The parish listed 285 households, with a population of 1,777 people, including 350 men and 384 women in Chudinovo itself, and the rest in the villages of Bulanova, Kuznetsova, and Lyubimova. The farthest village, Bulanova, was located 15 versts away and was the largest with a population of 406 people. The cemetery had a wooden chapel in the name of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, built long before the church and already dilapidated.
The first priest was Mikhail Efimovich Ivanov, the son of a deacon from the Ufa district, who graduated from the Ufa Spiritual School. He served for more than twenty years in the Chelyabinsk district and received archpastoral blessing for converting schismatics to Orthodoxy. The deacon Matvey Ivanovich Protopopov, a 23-year-old son of a deacon, graduated from the Chelyabinsk Spiritual School and was appointed to the church on March 30, 1862. Later, pastoral duties were performed by Kapiton Nikolayevich Protasov, who graduated from the Ufa Spiritual Seminary.
For a long time, pastoral duties were carried out by Ioakim Stefanovich and his son Vasily. Ioakim's grandson, Ioann Stefanovich Mirolyubov, served for almost ten years during the difficult times of the revolution and civil war. Vasily Andreyevich Dmitriev, a man of Russian spirit, died in 1884 without leaving an inheritance. Viktor Andreyevich Alektorov opened a school in his house, where 58 children were educated. Sergey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov, possessing musical abilities, also received archpastoral blessing. Filipp Andreyevich Burkov, recognized as capable of learning church singing, was awarded for his service in the church-parish school.
At a clergy congress, the acquisition of a "magic lantern" for evening discussions was discussed. In 1901, Vasily Ivanovich Zhiganov bequeathed 450 rubles for the construction of a chapel at the cemetery. In 1902, peasant Ivan Radikov and merchant Nikolai Fadeevich Baburin participated in the construction of a stone chapel.
In 1920, the Soviet authorities called clergy for military service. The Chudinovo parishioners requested the exemption of priest Ioann Mirolyubov and deacon Ioann Mikheev from conscription. Both received a deferment. In 1930, I.F. Mikheev was arrested on suspicion of "anti-Soviet activity."
In Chudinovo, bells were removed from the church, and the building was used as a warehouse, club, and forge. In 1961, the church was closed, and the property was recorded and taken away. In 1989, the district executive committee decided to return the building to the believers. In 1991, the Ascension of the Lord Church was consecrated, and Father Ioann Melekhina was appointed as the priest.
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