“The council of bishops were very surprised…” The documents about the story of lubenskiy and grigorianskiy divisions and the role of OGPU in the development of relationship between them

Abstract

The author publishes the documents of 1926-1927 from the Central archive of FSB RF illustrating the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church towards Lubenskiy and Grigorianskiy Divisions, internal contradictions between the dissenters and their dependence on the GPU-OGPU organs.

Keywords

• The Russian Orthodox Church
• the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
• lubenskiy division
• grigorianskiy division
• WCS
• a bishops’ council
• autocephaly
• GPU USSR
• the secret department of the OGPU