The Church in the Russian Revolution

Arguments for and against Restoring the Patriarchate at the Church Council of 1917-1918

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ID4208240
AuthorsCatherine Evtuhov (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume50
Issue3
Pages497-511
Publication date1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2499847
OpenAlexW2317777192
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited2

One of the most important events of the summer of 1917 was the opening of the All-Russian Council of the Orthodox church on 15 August in Moscow. In a dramatic opening ceremony, solemn processions from all the churches of Moscow converged on Red Square for the service led by Metropolitan Tikhon. The council had been convened by a 5 July order of the Holy Synod and its chief procurator, V. N. L'vov, with the concurrence of the Provisional Government. The calling of a church council-the first since Peter's establishment of the collegial system of administration-was a substantive change in church governance and also had a symbolic meaning. In pre-Petrine Russia, the councils not merely had played an ecclesiastical role but had formed an integral part of national government. (For example, Ivan IV and the church council had worked together to implement changes in the secular code of law as well as in spiritual and ecclesiastical matters

Administration (probate law · Archaeology · Ceremony · Church History · Government (linguistics · Political science · Synod · Classics · Historical and Political Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Theology and Canon Law Studies

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