№ 118(4), April, 2016
Public date: 29.04.2016
Archive of journal: Articles count 111, 300 kb
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PREREQUISITES FOR THE SECULARIZING REFORMS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
DescriptionThe article examines the process of secularization of Church property in the history of the world. Special attention is paid to the assumptions of the preparation of secularizing reforms in the Russian state since the policy of Joann III. We address the relationship between Church and state in the field of Church lands and ecclesiastical jurisdiction authorized in Stoglav in 1551, and in the judgment of the Council estates in 1581 and 1584. The article studies the reasons, under which it became necessary, in conditions of the emerging absolutism, to limit the Church's estates; the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this connection, there was issued the national Code – “Sobornoye ulozheniye” of 1649. The study discusses the limitation of economic and administrative privileges of the Church in accordance with the Council code of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. The article focuses on the administrative and financial functions of the Monastic Order. We have also made a distinction, and there are differences in the powers between the Monastic Orders 1649 and between recreated Monastic Order in 1701. The article discusses the mission of the Church reform of Peter I the Great and the results of this reform, which prepared the legislative framework for the secularizing reforms of Catherine II the Great