Khabarovsk Diocese of Russian Orthodox Church in 1988-2011: Creation and Transformation

Abstract

The article deals with the revival of Orthodoxy in the Russian Far East in the period from 1988 to 2012 in the context of the change of socio-political paradigm. The article is based on the archival materials of the Khabarovsk diocesan administration and the State Archive of the Khabarovsk Territory. Particular attention is paid to the processes of formation of the system of Church-administrative management of the Moscow Patriarchate structures in the Khabarovsk Territory. The social and economic conditions in which the administrative-territorial structure of the Khabarovsk diocese was transformed are analyzed. The data on the factors that hindered the reconstruction of the institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) destroyed after the events of 1917 and the Civil war of 1918-1922 are given. Statistical data on the number of religious buildings and the number of clergy in the period under review are presented. It is emphasized that the processes of the revival of Orthodoxy in the Khabarovsk Territory took place in unfavorable conditions for the Church hierarchy. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that in the modern period, the features of intra-Church life were not reflected in the publications devoted to the modern history of the Khabarovsk Krai.

Keywords

• russian orthodox church
• patriarchate of moscow
• khabarovsk diocese
• diocesan structures
• charter of the russian orthodox church
• bishop