Projects arranging supreme authority Russian Orthodox Church middle of the XIX century

Abstract

The article deals with the projects of the arranging of the supreme church management. The author makes the analysis of the projects on the base of a sources study. Some of them were introduced to a scientific historiography for the first time. The author investigates the projects’ creators’ estimates of the synod’s management and their proposals of its reorganization.

Keywords

• church-state relation
• supreme church authority
• the Holy Synod
• the chief procurator of the Holy Synod
• the Local Council
• st. hierarch Filaret of Moscow