The Political Position of Southeast Russian Church Council (1919) During the Civil War

Abstract

The article studies the attitude of the Southeast Russian Church Council toward rather an inhomogeneous politically White Movement. This council took place in Stavropol in 1919. Various socio-political forces, represented at the council, tried to take advantage of that assembly in order to use its authority for political causes, but the council successfully ignored such attempts. According to the council the main purpose of the Church was to work constructively in a religious and moral sphere. Since the White Army became an ally of the Church in its struggle with militant atheism, the leader of the White Movement General Anton Denikin was the only political fi gure who received a special support from the council

Keywords

• Russian Orthodox Church
• South-Eastern Russian Church Council
• the Provisional Supreme Church Authority
• the Russian Civil War
• the White Russian Movement
• General Anton Denikin