Ryazan Diocesan Gazette. Don Diocesan Gazette Magazine Diocesan Gazette

  • 11.03.2021

Name:Diocesan Gazette
Publication period: 01.01.1917 – 11.02.1919.
Chief editors (at various times): P. Zelenov, N. Kolosov, Archpriest Dobronravov.
Archeographic description:

Format - approximately A5, many numbers with double numbering. The number of pages - from 14 to 50, on average - 32 pages.


The original newspaper is kept in the Perm Regional Museum.

Description

"Perm Diocesan Gazette" was published in Perm in the period from 1867 to 1919 with a frequency of two or three times a month. The editor of the official part was P. Zelenov, the unofficial part - N. Kolosov, Archpriest Dobronravov. This collection contains numbers for 1917 and 1918.
The publication contained such publications as: decrees, blessings, orders (for example, synod), other official documents, appeals, reports, chronicle (diocesan), news and notes, lists, tables of expenses-incomes, announcements, articles, artistic journalistic works (poems), letters to the editor, book reviews
The structure of the newspapers was as follows: first, various announcements were placed (including those about vacancies), then there were editorial or most important articles, then other articles, poems were placed, towards the end of the publication - notes, book reviews, at the end - again announcements.
As the name implies, the publication has its own specifics. The emphasis in publications is always on religious life, information is published about the church, Cathedrals. To a certain extent, the war and revolution also affected the church, for example, notes were published about the farewell to the war of a priest, deaths, etc. The new regime also influenced the position of the church, as evidenced by articles about the financial situation of the clergy, violence against clerics, and the seizure of church property.

Don Diocesan Gazette, the official printed organ of the Don and Novocherkassk diocese (invalid). The first periodical of the Russian Orthodox Church in the South of Russia.

From July to November of the year, instead of the Don Diocesan Gazette, the Don Christian Thought magazine was published with the subtitle "Weekly Orthodox Christian magazine published at the Don Theological Seminary." Glebov was its permanent editor.

In the unofficial section of the Don Diocesan Gazette, many articles were published on the Don diocese, its bishops and other things, outstanding workers, monasteries and shrines, as well as the history of the Don Cossack army and its participation in military campaigns (the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. , expeditions to Central Asia, Russian-Japanese and World War I). In commemoration of the 100th anniversary Patriotic War 1812 and foreign campaigns of the Russian army in 1912-1914. published historical articles and materials about Emperor Alexander I, about the participation in hostilities of the Don atamans and Cossacks. Particularly informative materials on local history were published by Kirillov, a local historian, chairman of the council of the diocesan church history committee established on April 16, 1904 (“A Brief Historical Note on the Don Theological Seminary” (1893), “Report on the Activities of the Don Church History Committee (1904- 1912) ”(1912. No. 12, 15)), as well as archpriest. M. Simashkevich. Among the authors of articles on the history of the Don region were Fr. Grigory Levitsky, A. L. Krylov (“Essay on the Kremensky Ascension Monastery” (1875. No. 18-21, 23), “Aksay Icon of the Mother of God” (1883. No. 21-23), “Church antiquity of the Don diocese” (1884) ), N. Snesarev (“Note on the archive located at the Starocherkassk Resurrection Cathedral” (1877. No. 22)), I. M. Sulin (“ Short description villages of the region of the Don Army "(1889-1895)), A. I. Popov ("History of the Novocherkassk Theological School" (1897-1899)) and others.

Since a significant proportion of the population of the Don Cossack Region were Old Believers, sectarians and Buddhists, many articles were devoted to missionary topics, in 1904 the section “Split and sectarianism” was created. From publications on the history of the Old Believers and common faith, one can distinguish such as “Definitions relating to the schism, and the oaths of the great Moscow Council of 1666/7.” (1871-1872, 1883) and "The activities of the Russian Church against the schism since the great Moscow Council" (1875. No. 3-4, 7-9, 11-14) Snesarev; "Materials for the history of the split in the Don region" (1873-1876); “Evening conversations with the hegumen of the Moscow co-religion monastery, Fr. Paul in the Don Theological Seminary "(1876); "Anti-schismatic mission in the Don region under St. Tikhon I" (1880) and "Readings on the exposure of the Russian Old Believer schism" (1880. No. 1-2, 4-6, 8, 10-11, 19-20) N. S. Kutepova ; "St. Mitrofan, the first Bishop of Voronezh, as a fighter against the Old Believer schism in the Don Ukraine" (1904. No. 7) E. Ovsyannikova. Kutepov’s articles “The Shtundists” (1879. No. 1), “The Dukhobortsy” (1883. No. 1-2), “The Molokan Heresy” (1884), “Skopskaya Heresy” (1885. No. 9-10, 13, 16, 18), Whips (1886); N. Dikareva "Little Russian Shtund" (1886); E. Kholostova "Sect of wanderers in the Nagai village of the Don diocese" (1898. No. 23, 25-27); I. Artemyeva "The sect of the mediators and the experience of fighting it" (1912. No. 27, 32, 34); "The 7th Day Adventist Sect" (1912. No. 19-21). A number of articles are devoted to the comparison of Buddhism with Christianity and the conversion of Kalmyks to Orthodoxy: "On Buddhism" (1871-1872, 1875) Krylov; “On the pagan temples, or khuruls, of the Don Kalmyks” (1891. No. 3) Kutepova; "Buddhism and Christianity" (1893) prot. I. V. Krasnitsky; "Brief information about the Don Kalmyks" (1911. No. 36) and "The historical past of the anti-Lamaic mission among the Kalmyks of the Don diocese" (1912. No. 2-5, 7) of Pavlovsky. In 1870 and 1874, Orthodox prayers in the Kalmyk language were published in the "Don Diocesan Gazette", in 1871 and 1875 - "Experience of the Kalmyk-Russian Dictionary".

In addition, the words and speeches of the Don archpastors, clerics and diocesan missionaries, articles on practical issues of pastoral work, public education, etc. were constantly printed in the unofficial section. There were few original works on theology, general and Russian church history compared to the number of articles in other diocesan magazines. One can single out the apologetic articles of St. Gilyarevsky "Darwinism" (1878), "The Moral Philosophy of Utilitarianism" (1880. No. 20-21) and others, L. G. Epifanovich "Communism and Socialism" (1879. No. 21-22; 1880. No. 3-6, 9-10, 14-15), Kirillov "Church-religious issues touched upon in F. M. Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov"" (1880. No. 8, 16-17), I. A. Glebov "A. S. Pushkin "(1899. No. 17-18, 22, 27, 29), historical and theological works of the Aksai bishop. John (Metropolsky) "History of the Ecumenical Councils" (1893-1896), "The Fall of the Western Church from the Eastern" (1897-1898) and "Rationalist theology before the Judgment of Orthodoxy" (1899. No. 3-15), Ovsyannikov "Patriarch of Constantinople Kirill Lukaris and his fight against Roman Catholic propaganda in the East" (1899. No. 17, 22, 24, 31, 34-35), T. Donetsk "History of the persecution of Christians in the first three centuries" (1899. No. 9-12/13 , 17-18, 24, 26), Krasnitsky "Stories about the Holy Land" (1899. No. 1-2, 4, 6, 16, 18, 32, 34).

As an appendix to the Don Diocesan Gazette, Epifanovich’s Notes on Accusatory Theology (1887-1888), The Finger of God: A Collection of Edifying Tales from Modern Life in 4 editions (1887-1889, 1891) were published by Kirillov, On Honoring holy icons "(1888) Kutepova," Minutes (journals) of the Congress of Fathers of Deputies of the Clergy of the Don Diocese "(1889-1917)," Patristic Instructions "(1890-1891)," Lovers of the Word of God "(1890-1893) ep. John (Metropolsky), "List of persons serving in the spiritual and educational department in the Don diocese" (1900-1902, 1905-1908), "Emperor Alexander I" (1912-1913) A. I. Abramtsev, many instructive brochures, teaching aids and official publications - statutes, reports on the state of schools, fraternities, etc.

Publication type: Newspaper

Publisher: Arkhangelsk episcopate

Place of publication: Arkhangelsk

Storage:
AONB: 1888-1891, 1893-1918.
GMOs: 1897. - № 10 - 24; 1898. - № 2 - 13, 15 - 24; 1900. - № 2 - 4, 6 - 17, 19 - 24; 1902. - № 1 - 11, 14 - 24; 1903. - № 2 - 7, 9 - 15, 17, 19, 21 - 24; 1911. - № 2 - 24; 1912. - № 18, 22, 24; 1915. - № 2 - 3, 6, 8 - 10; 1916. - № 2 - 18, 21, 23 - 24.
AOCM: 1888-1917.
GAAO: 1888-1919.

Microfilms:
1885-1887 ("Arkhangelsk Diocesan News")
1888-1918 ("Arkhangelsk Diocesan Gazette")

Specialist. releases:
[In 1901-1916, "Reports on the state of church schools" and other church-departmental material on the Arkhangelsk diocese were published as an appendix]..

History reference:

By decree of the Holy Governing Synod of January 25, 1888, a new religious publication was allowed - newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Gazette", which was the successor to the Arkhangelsk Diocesan News, closed in 1887.

The official part of the newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Gazette" published decrees of the Synod, the government and the bishop, pastoral blessings, reports of theological educational institutions, missionary organizations, announcements of priestly vacancies, promotions, awards of priests, definitions of the Theological Consistory.

The unofficial part published a chronicle of the church life of Arkhangelsk and the diocese, church-historical materials, and edifying readings.

As a free supplement to the "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Gazette", the "Arkhangelsk Leaflet" was published. It was a 4-6-page brochure, which was pasted at the end of the issue. As a rule, the entire volume of the brochure was occupied by one article, which had the character of a religious and moral conversation with the reader. "Arkhangelsk sheet" was published until 1891, but came out irregularly.

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Subscription to the newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Gazette" was obligatory for all parishes, churches and monasteries of the diocese. They were printed in the private printing house "Heirs of D. Goryainov". At the end of each issue was placed its content. During its existence, the content of the journal has always corresponded to the initially adopted program. However, unlike the newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan News", the newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan News" contains much more historically valuable information. Its pages reflected the worldview and ideology of the people of that era, and they were intended not only for the clergy, but for all segments of the population - the intelligentsia, merchants, philistines, peasants. Each of these groups had its own materials.

For many years, the editors of the unofficial part of the newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Vedomosti" collaborated with the Arkhangelsk Church and Archaeological Committee and its Ancient Storage. The head of the Committee, the well-known northern historian and local historian Iustin Mikhailovich Sibirtsev, has repeatedly been the editor of the newspaper Arkhangelsk Diocesan Vedomosti. Sibirtsev himself, his assistant G. Bugoslavsky and other authors published on the pages of the newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Gazette" more than forty articles with a scientific description of ancient handwritten books stored in the Ancient Storage and in monasteries, notes on the state of archives and libraries of northern churches and monasteries, as well as more than 25 detailed historical essays on the northern monasteries themselves.

Of great historical value are numerous articles with a detailed report on the travels of priests in the Arkhangelsk province, which vividly describe the customs and habits of the population, unpreserved architectural monuments, and interesting ethnographic essays.

Establishment Soviet power in the North, the Arkhangelsk clergy met with hostility. His comments on the decrees of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars regarding the church were sharply negative. The newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Vedomosti" welcomed the arrival of the interventionists in Arkhangelsk. In No. 14 for 1918, an appeal was published: " The godless power of the Bolshevik Party of Social Democrats in the city of Arkhangelsk and the province fell. Its leaders shamefully fled in the face of an angry people. Allies have arrived:... Rise to defend the Motherland." All activities carried out by the Provisional Government of the Northern Region, headed by Tchaikovsky, the editors of the newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Vedomosti" were supported. 1918 became last year the existence of the most durable Arkhangelsk church publication. In 1919, the newspaper "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Vedomosti" was not published, apparently due to technical difficulties: difficulties with paper, interruptions in the work of the printing house, etc. After the establishment of Soviet power in the North, the clergy, who had compromised themselves, did not receive permission to publish their own printed organ.

"Diocesan Gazette" - Russian church periodicals

"Diocesan Gazette" - the official departmental publication of the Russian Orthodox Church, of course, is of great importance for church history. It is in them that all the most important events of church life and the statistical and other data accompanying them are reflected in the most detailed and systematic way. As noted above, the Provincial Gazette became the prototype of the Diocesan Gazette, which had been published in different parts of the empire since the 1840s and did not sufficiently cover the church activities of the dioceses. In this regard, it became necessary to publish "exclusively church" statements. The creation of such an organ of the periodical church press, according to the authors of the program, could solve a number of issues and problems. In a petition in favor of the publication, Archbishop Dimitry (Muretov) of Kherson pointed out that such a publication would help to significantly reduce the number of rewritten papers in consistories and reduce the number of errors that are inevitable when copying. Also, the statements would make it possible for the clergy to find out the information they need, without visiting the diocesan city, in addition, the statements were considered by him as "a new way to pastoral action on the flock" Troitsky A., prot. Diocesan Gazette // Orthodox Encyclopedia. T. XVIII. M., 2008. S. 493. .

Church journals began to be published in Russia in the 1860s. The program of church records compiled by St. Innokenty (Borisov), Archbishop of Kherson, was approved and sent out by the Synod on December 31, 1859. The Program on Church Newsletters was approved and sent out by the Synod on December 31, 1859. The program was compiled by St. Innokenty (Borisov), Archbishop of Kherson.

Troitsky A., prot. Diocesan Gazette // Orthodox Encyclopedia. T. XVIII. M., 2008. S. 493. . Already in 1860, the first diocesan statements were issued in Yaroslavl - the Yaroslavl Diocesan Gazette. They were followed by "Kherson Diocesan Gazette".

The structure of Vedomosti included two parts - official and unofficial. The official part published: manifestos, decrees, orders and rescripts of the emperors, decrees of the Synod and the chief prosecutor, orders of the diocesan authorities, annual reports or extracts from them on the consistory, theological seminaries, etc. educational institutions and institutions of the diocese. Interest for local church history and spirit genealogy. estates represent the lists of employees in the spiritual department printed here, reports on changes in service (ordinations, appointments, transfers, deaths), awards and promotion to ranks, discharge lists of graduates and students of theological seminaries and schools, exam schedules, lists of vacant places for clergy and clerks (sometimes including prosphora maids), schedules of sermons in the cathedral. Sometimes magazines, protocols and reports of diocesan and district congresses of the clergy and school congresses, information about hierarchal services and travel routes to review the churches of the diocese, reports of diocesan missionaries on the state of the Old Believers and sectarianism within the diocese, lists of baptized and adherents to Orthodoxy were placed here. other confessions, reports of fraternities, trustees, committees.

Sermons, speeches, teachings, apologetic and catechetical texts, funeral speeches were published in the unofficial part. See: Smirnov V., priest. Speech at the burial of the Vologda merchant V.A. Ledentsova.//VEV. 1874. No. 5. pp.137-139. , articles on theology, liturgy, church history, pedagogy, missionary work, Old Believers, sectarianism, etc. Reviews of spiritual and secular literature, edifying stories and poems, medical and other practical information and advice were published. In 1873, an article by a certain M. Pervushin was published, where the author very emotionally talks about the need for representatives of the common people to be vaccinated against smallpox, and also strongly recommends peasants and so on. persons to familiarize themselves with his brochure, which tells how to prevent possible fires. Cm.: Pervushin M. Inoculate smallpox and destroy fires. //WEB. 1874. No. 3.S.101-107. .

Despite the unified regulations, the bishop played a huge role in the publication of the statements. According to the rules that remained unchanged until 1906, the head of the diocese appointed and dismissed the editor, censor and other responsible for the publication officials, therefore, often, the general outlook of the bishop played a certain role in shaping the specifics of the publication. See: Netuzhilov K.E. Diocesan periodicals in pre-revolutionary Russia // Proceedings of the Russian State Pedagogical University. A.I. Herzen. 2006. Volume 7. No. 21-1. C. 178..

local officials. church periodicals(magazines) published in 63 dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1860-1922. For the first time, E.'s program was compiled in 1853 by the Kherson archbishop. St. Innokenty (Borisov). Only 6 years later, it was submitted for approval to the Holy Synod by the Kherson archbishop. Dimitri (Muretov). His petition for permission to publish Kherson Diocesan Gazette in Odessa was granted by the Synod on 11 November. 1859 Decree of the Synod of December 31. the same year, the approved program was sent to all diocesan bishops.

In a petition in favor of the publication of E. Art. archbishop Dimitry cited the following considerations: 1) a significant reduction in the correspondence of papers in consistories during the printing of more literate and accurate copies; 2) obtaining by the local clergy the information they need, “moreover, many of the sacred church ministers, being notified by means of statements, would not have to make trips ... to the diocesan city to inquire about the fate of their requests, about empty places, about the success of their children studying in the seminary”, etc.; 3) "a new way to pastoral influence on the flock ... and with a word of edification and consolation, and with a warning against infection and tares of various false teachings and customs of non-Christian, and with appeals to the exploits of charity and other charitable deeds." E. in. were called to "revive" the entire diocesan administration and bring it closer to the flock. The same and other arguments were cited later. at the beginning of the publication of new diocesan journals. So, in the editorial preface to No. 1 of the Yekaterinoslav Diocesan Gazette (1872. No. 1. S. 1-7), it was indicated that the publication was necessary in order to “more lively exchange, on the one hand, orders, on the other hand, reports, between administrative diocesan authority and controlled by the clergy”, since in other dioceses with the beginning of the publication of E. v. official correspondence was reduced by more than half. Another goal was the information support of local initiatives of the clergy: the maintenance and improvement of spiritual schools, the election of deans, deanery congresses, the selection of confessors by the priesthood, etc. In addition, the need to illuminate the common Christ was pointed out. questions.

From 16 Apr. 1860 at the request of the Yaroslavl archbishop. Nile (Isakovich) according to a program similar to the plan of Archbishop. Innokenty, the Yaroslavl Diocesan Gazette began to be published, which was 2.5 months ahead of the Kherson EB. Most of the diocesan journals were called E. v., although there were also non-standard titles. Since 1861, publications have been published in Kyiv, Tambov and Chernigov, since 1862 - in Kaluga, Kamenets-Podolsk ("Podolsk Diocesan Gazette") and Tula, since 1863 - in Vilna ("Lithuanian Diocesan Gazette"), Vyatka (now Kirov), Irkutsk and Poltava, since 1864 - in Vologda and Nizhny Novgorod, since 1865 - in Vladimir, in Orel, Ryazan, Saratov and Smolensk, since 1866 - in Voronezh and Penza, since 1867 - in Kazan (“News on the Kazan Diocese”), Chisinau, Kremenets (“Volyn Diocesan Gazette”, from 1908 published in Zhitomir), Perm, Samara and Kharkov, from 1868 - in Minsk, from 1869 - in Moscow (since 1880 "Moscow Church Gazette"), Novocherkassk ("Don Diocesan Gazette") and Simferopol ("Taurian Diocesan Gazette"), since 1871 - in Belgorod ("Kursk Diocesan Gazette", since 1882 published in Kursk), from 1872 - in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk), from 1873 - in Orenburg and Stavropol ("Caucasian Diocesan Gazette", from 1886 "Stavropol Diocesan Gazette"), from 1874 - in Vitebsk ("Polotsk Diocesan Gazette"), since 1875 - in Astrakhan and Novgorod, since 1876 - in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), since 1877 - in Warsaw ("Kholmsko-Varshavsky Diocesan Bulletin") and Tver, since 1879 - in Ufa, since 1880 - in Riga ("Rizhsky Diocesan List", since 1887 "Riga Diocesan Gazette") and Tomsk, since 1882 - in Tobolsk, since 1883 - in Mogilev, since 1884 - in Krasnoyarsk ("Yenisei Diocesan News"), from 1885 - in Arkhangelsk ("Arkhangelsk Diocesan News", from 1888 "Arkhangelsk Diocesan News") and Kostroma, from 1886 - in Yekaterinburg, from 1887 - in Yakutsk, since 1891 - in Tiflis (now Tbilisi) ("Spiritual Bulletin of the Georgian Exarchate"), since 1894 - in Blagoveshchensk ("Kamchatsky Diocesan Gazette", since 1899 "Annunciation Diocesan Gazette") and Pskov, since 1895 - in Vladikavkaz and St. Petersburg ("News on the St. Petersburg diocese"), since 1898 - in Omsk and Petrozavodsk ("Olonets Diocesan Gazette"), since 1900 - in Chita ("Transbaikal dioceses al'nye vedomosti"), since 1901 - in Grodno, since 1903 - in Vladivostok, since 1906 - in Verny (now Alma-Ata) ("Turkestan Diocesan Sheets") and Kholm (now Chelm, Poland) ( "Kholmskaya church life").

In 1906-1915. official editions of E. c. published in every diocese, except for the eparchies of the Georgian Exarchate (the “Spiritual Bulletin of the Georgian Exarchate” was closed in May 1906, resumed as the “Bulletin of the Georgian Exarchate” in March 1910) and the Finnish Diocese. In 1913-1917. in Salmis (now the village of Salmi, Karelia) and Vyborg Karelskiye Izvestiya published a church chronicle for the Finnish Diocese, Lists of Clergymen (1915), and Journals of the Pastoral Congress of the Clergy of the Finnish Diocese (1915-1916). E. in. began to leave earlier than the official. publications of the Synod and its central institutions, and in many others. remote dioceses, they began to be published earlier than in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The chronicle of church life in both capitals was published on the pages of general church magazines, the subject matter and distribution of which were not limited to the boundaries of the diocese. Thus, information on the Novgorod-St. Petersburg metropolis was published in 1858-1876. in the "Spiritual Conversation", and in 1875-1894 - in Zh. "Church Bulletin" at SPbDA.

E.'s prototype. and the official served as a model for them. publications of the provinces of the Russian Empire - lips. statements, the program to-rykh was determined by the "Regulations on the order of proceedings in the provincial boards" dated July 3, 1837. Gub. statements began to appear from 1838 immediately in 44 provinces, and in total in 1838-1917. they were published in 82 provinces and regions (in all but the provinces of the Grand Duchy of Finland), 19 of which did not have their own orthodoxy. dioceses (some provinces of the Kingdom of Poland, Ostsee, Transcaucasia and Central Asia). Since 1845, their program included articles of a scientific nature, local history publications, some of them related to local church history (see, for example: Index of articles published in the Arkhangelsk Gubernskie Vedomosti from the time of their foundation (1838) to January 1889 and relating to the Arkhangelsk diocese / Compiled by Priest N. I. Varfolomeev, Arkhangelsk, 1889). lips. publications were published on the initiative of the central government, E. v. were published at the request of the ruling bishops, who represented the publication program, which could have been several. differ from the existing ones, and with the permission of the Synod. The initiators or trustees of the publication pl. E. in. there were outstanding bishops who published their sermons, teachings, ascetic, theological and church-historical works in them. Yes, St. Theophan the Recluse was the initiator of the publication and one of the authors of the Tambov Diocesan Gazette and Vladimir Diocesan Gazette. E. in. were externally and in content more diverse than lips. statements, but less often published (from 1 time per week to 1 time per month, provincial - from 1 to 6 times a week). They had appendices, important articles were often published in separate reprints.

E. v., as a rule, consisted of 2 parts (or departments): official and unofficial (the latter was sometimes called "addition" to E. v., for example, in Vologda Diocesan Gazette, Irkutsk Diocesan Gazette, Tambov EV", "Kherson EV", etc.), in an exceptional case - from 3 parts ("Voronezh Diocesan Gazette" in 1868-1876 consisted of official, unofficial parts and additions). Sometimes E. in. came out without an unofficial part (for example, "Novgorod Diocesan Gazette" in 1875-1893, "Simbirsk Diocesan Gazette" in 1876-1895, many editions in 1917-1922). If an academic or seminary theological journal was published within the diocese, E. v. could become an appendix to it (for example, "Izvestia on the Kazan diocese" came out as an appendix to the magazine "Orthodox interlocutor" in 1867-1890), and unofficial. part might not be published (for example, in the Kharkiv diocese after the start of publication under the DS j. "Faith and Reason"; "Kharkov Diocesan Gazette" was transformed into an official section of this journal called "Leaflet for the Kharkov diocese" (1884-1903) , "News on the Kharkov diocese" (1904-1906), then under the heading "News and notes on the Kharkov diocese"). Unofficial a part could come out both more often than an official one (approaching the format and content of a newspaper), and less often (like a periodical collection of edifying and local history readings).

In the official parts were printed all the most important and related to this diocese manifestos, decrees, orders and rescripts of emperors, decrees, orders, definitions, relations of the Senate, State. Council, Cabinet of Ministers and other state. institutions, the Synod and its Chief Procurator, as well as the orders of the diocesan authorities, annual reports or extracts from them on the consistory, DS, other educational institutions and institutions of the diocese. Of great interest to the local church history and genealogy of the clergy are the lists of employees in the clergy published here, reports on changes in service (ordinations, appointments, transfers, deaths), awards and promotion to ranks, contributions to emerital funds and the issuance of benefits from them, grade lists of graduates and students of theological seminaries and schools, exam schedules, lists of vacancies for clergy and clerks (sometimes including prosphoron makers), schedules of sermons in the cathedral (sometimes in the churches of county towns). In some E. century. in the official parts also included magazines, minutes and reports of diocesan and district congresses of the clergy and school congresses, information about hierarchical services and travel routes to review the churches of the diocese, reports from diocesan missionaries on the state of the Old Believers and sectarianism within the diocese, lists of baptized and adherents to Orthodoxy, etc. Confessions, reports of fraternities, trustees, committees, local branches of the Palestinian Orthodox Society and other church and public organizations. These and similar documents in some journals could also be published in informal journals. part, as well as in the form of appendices to one or another part, with separate pagination and sometimes with its own title page.

Unofficial part contained sermons, speeches, teachings, apologetic and catechetical texts, articles on theology, liturgy, church history, pedagogy, missionary work, Old Believers, sectarianism, heterodoxy, etc. Reviews of spiritual and secular literature, anniversary articles about Russian writers, edifying stories and poems, medical and other practical information. Thematic preferences, the number of translated articles (translations of the works of the Holy Fathers were published, as well as modern Western European works on biblical studies, apologetics, moral theology, Church history, etc.), the ratio of original texts and reprints from other journals changed in different journals. in. and in different years of their publication. Of greatest interest to the researcher are constantly published in the unofficial. parts of the article and documents of a historical and local lore nature: reviews of the trips of bishops and their diaries containing descriptions of parishes and characteristics of clergymen; diaries and reports on missionary trips; ethnographic notes related to the local population; historical articles about diocesan institutions, religious educational institutions, monasteries, parishes and their shrines, cemeteries; biographies of local saints and ascetics of piety, obituaries, memoirs. In some dioceses, work was actively carried out to analyze and describe church archives, for which special scientists were created (for example, the Commission for the analysis of the consistory archive in Astrakhan, the Diocesan Church Historical and Statistical Committee in Vladimir, the Voronezh Historical and Archaeological church committee), such materials were published in unofficial. parts of E. c. Some publications regularly published articles in local languages: Moldavian (in the "Kishinev Diocesan Gazette" in 1867-1871 and 1917), Georgian (in the "Spiritual Bulletin of the Georgian Exarchate"), Yakut (in the "Yakut Diocesan Gazette"), etc. languages, separate prayers and vocabulary materials were sometimes printed (for example, in the Kalm. language in the Donskie EV).

All E. in. had applications in the form of books, brochures and leaflets, in addition to the official ones. documents (lists of parishes, address and other reference books, reports, protocols, journals of congresses, etc.) these were materials on school affairs, missionary work, calendar and thematic collections of sermons, historical and statistical descriptions of dioceses or their parts, anniversary collections and biographies, catalogs church libraries, bookselling and publishing catalogs, indexes of the contents of E. c. Other periodicals or continuing publications (magazines, newspapers, leaflets) could also come out as supplements.

E. in. were a purely church departmental publication, the staff of which consisted of an editor, a proofreader and a clerk, sometimes 1-2 assistant editors. Very often editing official. and unofficial parts were carried out separately, in these cases the official. part was usually signed by the secretary or other official of the consistory, and the neo-official. part - the rector or other employee of the DS or DU. A. G. Stadnitsky (later Metropolitan of Tashkent Arseniy) was a teacher at the Chisinau Palace of Culture and edited the "Chisinau EV" in 1887-1895. Bud. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy I in 1904-1905 was an inspector of the Pskov DS and acted as editor of the Pskov Diocesan Gazette, and in 1909-1911. in the position of rector of the Tula DS, he edited the Tula Diocesan Gazette. Editors at E.V. there were other rectors of theological seminaries: archim. ssmch. Ermogen (Dolganev; later Bishop of Tobolsk) in the "Spiritual Bulletin of the Georgian Exarchate" in 1898-1901, archim. ssmch. Thaddeus (Uspensky; later Archbishop of Tver) in the "Olonets EV" in 1903-1908, archim. Anastassy (Gribanovsky; later Metropolitan, First Hierarch of ROCOR) in the Moscow Church Gazette in 1906, archim. ssmch. Methodius (Krasnoperov; later Bishop of Petropavlovsk) in the Ufa Diocesan Gazette in 1908-1913, archim. ssmch. John (Pommer; later Archbishop of Riga) in "Lithuanian EVs" in 1911-1912, archim. ssmch. Lavrenty (Knyazev; later Bishop of Balakhna) in them in 1913-1915, archim. Veniamin (Fedchenkov; later Metropolitan of Saratov) in the "Tauride EV" in 1912-1913, archim. ssmch. Seraphim (Ostroumov; later Archbishop of Smolensk) in Kholmskaya Church Life in 1914-1915. etc. A significant contribution to the publication of E. century. contributed editors - local historians and local historians, such as N. I. Suvorov ("Vologda EV" in 1865-1896), N. N. Korsunsky and M. P. Troitsky ("Yaroslavl EV" in 1871-1898 and 1903-1915 ), prot. Evfimy Setsinsky (“Podolsky EV” in 1892-1905), I. N. Letnitsky (“Astrakhan Diocesan Gazette” in 1896-1918), N.V.

Budget E. in. included the payment of the work of the censor, usually appointed from the city clergy, and the payment of royalties to the authors of articles. Topical polemical notes, other articles that went beyond the publication program, as a rule, were not paid. For many dioceses of E. c. remained the only local church magazine. Subscription to the publication was obligatory for all parishes of the diocese, depending on their number. amounted to several hundreds up to 1-1.5 thousand copies. If the diocese did not yet have its own E. in., it could temporarily distribute the publication of one of the neighboring dioceses. For example, in 1863-1879. the only "Irkutsk EV" in Siberia were distributed in several. dioceses and placed officers. documents and other materials relating to these dioceses. If in publishing E. c. The diocese did not have its own DS, they regularly contained information about the seminary, in which the children of clergymen and clerks of this diocese studied.

With the revolutionary upheavals of 1905-1907. attempts were made by some editors or newly formed editorial committees to convert E. to. into "church-public" publications, which sometimes led to their renaming. This is how the Saratov Spiritual Herald appeared (Sept. 1905 - March 1913), Orthodox Podolia: Organ of the Clergy of the Podolsk Diocese (1906-1917), Tauride Church and Public Herald (in 1906-1917 it appeared instead of the unofficial part of the Tauride EV"), "Nizhny Novgorod Church Public Bulletin" (1906-1918), "Yenisei Church Bulletin: Weekly Church Public Journal" (January 1907 - July 1908), "Kaluga Church Public Bulletin" (February 1907 - 1918 ), “Bulletin of the Vilna Orthodox Holy Spirit Brotherhood” (in 1907-1916 it was published instead of the unofficial part of the “Lithuanian EVs”, in 1907-1908 - also instead of the unofficial part of the “Grodno Diocesan Gazette”), “Faith and Life: Journal of the Chernihiv diocese "(1912-1917), gas. "Chernigov Church and Public Bulletin" (1914-1917). In 1915, in connection with the evacuation of institutions from the occupied zap. regions ceased to publish "Grodno EV"; The Riga EVs were published in Yaroslavl (1915) and Nizhny Novgorod (1915-1917), the Warsaw Diocesan Leaflet and Kholmskaya Church Life (1915-1917), as well as the Lithuanian EVs (1916) - in Moscow, "Minsk Diocesan Gazette" - in Ryazan (1915-1917).

After the February Revolution of 1917, pl. E. in. ceased to exist, others came out irregularly, sometimes in newspaper format. New titles appeared: “Bulletin of the Ekaterinoslav Provincial Committee of the Orthodox Church” (March-Aug. 1917, published in September-December under the title “Free Church”), “Church Truth: Free Voice of the Clergy and Laity on Church Affairs” (Apr. - November 1917, with the appendix "News of the Simbirsk Diocese" - until July 1918), "Orenburg Church and Public Bulletin" (April 1917 - December 1918), "News of the Yekaterinburg Church" (April 1917-1919), " Voice of the Free Church" (Ryazan diocese, May 1917 - July 1918), "Orthodox Volyn" (May 1917-1918), "Bulletin of Church Unity" (Voronezh diocese, June 1917 - July 1918), "Kostroma Church and Public Bulletin: Journal for the clergy and laity of the Kostroma diocese" (July 1917 - March 1918), "Don Christian Thought" (July 1917 - November 1919), "Bessarabian church voice" and "Voice of the Bessarabian Church" (1917), "Petrograd church-eparchial messenger "(1918), "Kyiv Diocesan Bulletin" (1918), "Kursk Diocesan Bulletin: Publishing House of the clergy and laity of the Kursk diocese" (1918), "Official news on the Omsk diocese" (1918), "Voice of the clergy and laity of the Chernigov diocese" (1918), "Voice of the Podolsk Church" (1918), "Tomsk Church and Public Bulletin" (1918, in 1919 the edition was resumed. "Tomsk Diocesan Gazette"), "Ufa Church and People's Voice" (1918-1919), "Voice of the Yakut Church" (1918-1919). In 1917, official. publications were published in 61 dioceses, in 1918 - in 46, in 1919 - in 15 dioceses, of which only 3 - in the provinces occupied by the Bolsheviks ("Vladimir EV", "Novgorod EV" and "Bulletin of the Orel Diocesan Council" ). In 1920-1922. published "Arkhangelsk EV" (January-February 1920), "Decrees of the Supreme Church Authority" (Vyatka, 1920), "Voice of the Free Church" (Vladivostok, 1920), "Proceedings of the Diocesan Council" (Vladivostok, 1921-1922), "Transbaikal Church and Public Bulletin" (Chita, Sept. 1921 - Oct. 1922).

Total pre-revolutionary and successive editions of 1917-1922. used at least 107 different titles. Only a few of them have detailed general indexes (“Podolsky EV” for 1862-1905, “Penza Diocesan Gazette” for 1866-1900, “Irkutsk EV” for 1863-1904, “Minsk EV” for 1868-1897) or indexes to one from parts (to unofficial parts of Chernihiv Diocesan News for 1861-1905, Vyatka Diocesan Gazette for 1863-1912, Poltava Diocesan Gazette for 1863-1912, Voronezh EV for 1866-1915, Volyn EV for 1867-1907, "Chisinau EV" for 1867-1912, "Yakut EV" for 1887-1907, "Arkhangelsk EV" for 1888-1912; to the official part of the "Simbirsk EV" for 1876-1898). The rest have indexes or reviews of content only for the first years of publication, indexes of articles on certain topics, and publications of some dioceses (Warsaw, Vladivostok, Grodno, Yekaterinburg, Transbaikal, Kostroma, Lithuania, Mogilev, Moscow, Olonets, Pskov, Riga, Turkestan, Ufa , as well as the Georgian Exarchate) have only annual table of contents. In total in 1860-1916. 2581 annual set of E.v. with 80 titles, editions are stored in the National Library of Russia (2522 complete sets and 53 incomplete) and the RSL (2399 complete sets and 164 with gaps), 77 titles are presented in the BAN (1673 complete and 343 incomplete sets). In other libraries (GPIB, SPbDA, MDA) pl. there are no editions, and most of the available ones are presented with lacunae or fragmentary; only in certain regions, regional and republican libraries and archives are local publications collected. Editions 1917-1922 in the complex are not collected anywhere, pl. the numbers cannot be found in any vault.

In 1922-1928. eparchial administrations of the Renovationists issued at least 38 periodicals, usually short-lived. Some of them had traditions. for E. in. titles: Tula Church Bulletin (1923), Tula EV (1924-1928), Samara EV (1924), Vyatka Diocesan News (1924), Orel Diocesan Bulletin (1925), Arkhangelsk Church Voice" (1925-1926), "Church Bulletin" (Petrozavodsk, 1925-1926; Irkutsk, 1925-1928), "Perm EV" (1926), "Ural Church Gazette" (Sverdlovsk, 1927-1928). The titles of others reflected the desire to dissociate themselves from the “church counter-revolution”: “Church Revival” (Odessa, 1922), “Friend of the Orthodox People” (Saratov, 1922), “Voice of Living Faith” (Tambov, 1922-1923), “Living Church” (Penza, 1922; Kyiv, 1922-1923), "Renewal of the Church" (Tsaritsyn, 1922; Chelyabinsk, 1923), "Church Dawn" (Vologda, 1922-1923), "Church Renewal" (Orel, 1922-1923; Ryazan , 1923-1926). Several magazines were published in cities that had not previously been diocesan centers (Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd), Chelyabinsk, Pyatigorsk, Minusinsk, Klin). In con. 20s the publication of all diocesan periodicals in the USSR, including Renovation, ceased.

In Russian Abroad in the 20s the publication of Lithuanian EVs resumed (1922-1923, in 1923-1940 the Voice of the Lithuanian Orthodox Diocese was published in Kaunas). The traditions of the pre-revolutionary diocesan press continued to some extent in the Church Bulletin of the Western European Diocese (Paris, 1927-1940, 1946-1959), the Bulletin of the Russian Western European Patriarchal Exarchate (Paris, 1947-1989), several. diocesan journals of ROCOR. Modeled after E. c. Uniat was published in Austria-Hungary. magazines (since 1886 - in the Przemysl and Stanislav dioceses, since 1889 - in Lvov), some of them continued to appear in interwar Poland, for example. "Diocesan shifts" (1919-1939). After the accession of the Uniates to the Orthodox. Churches in Lvov published a journal of Orthodoxy. Lviv-Ternopil diocese "Diocesan Visnik" (1946-1948, with No. 2 for 1948 "Orthodox Visnik", since 1968 published in Kyiv). Dr. an attempt to publish a diocesan journal in the USSR was short-lived: in 1948-1950. 4 issues came out. Vesti: Bulletin of the Riga Diocese.

After the resumption of the diocesan publishing activities of the ROC in the end. 80s 20th century periodicals of dioceses also appeared, among which many were called E. v. and even pointed to the continuity of the traditions of pre-revolutionary journals. The first in 1989 were "Samara EV", "Bulletin of the Riga-Latvian diocese" and "Minsk EV". In 1990, the Voronezh Diocesan Bulletin, Belorussian Exarchate Bulletin, Moscow EV, Perm Eparchy Blagovestnik, St. Sverdlovsk diocese", "Blagovest" (Kostroma), "Kurskie EV", "Diocesan Visnik" (Mukachevo, Ternopil), "Omsk EV", "Vedomosti of the Tobolsk-Tyumen diocese", "Ryazan Church Bulletin" (since 1992 magazine), "Penza EV" (magazine since 1998). Last New editions are published every year. In present At the same time, almost every diocese publishes church periodicals under the auspices of the diocesan administration or with its participation. Of these, more than 25 are called E. in. ("Brest EV", "Lipetsk EV", "Novogrudsky EV", "Saransk EV", "EV" (Syktyvkar)).

Modern Diocesan periodicals differ significantly from pre-revolutionary ones. More than 3/4 of them are newspapers, there are few departmental publications intended mainly for the clergy (for example, “Orders and information on the Perm diocese (for the clergy and parish councils)” (1991), “Information Bulletin of the Vladimir Diocesan Administration”, “Samara Chronograph : Bulletin of the Samara Diocesan Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church). The remaining publications are universal in content and audience coverage, have sections or applications for children. As in pre-revolutionary periodicals, they reprint theological, apologetic, polemical, and other articles from the central church and secular publications, as well as the Lives of Saints and Ascetics of Piety, excerpts from the works of St. fathers, sermons, spiritual stories and poems from editions XIX - early. 20th century A chronicle of church life, historical and local history articles about monasteries, temples and local shrines, Lives of the New Martyrs and Confessors, memoirs, reviews of books and magazines, etc. are published.

Lit .: Runkevich S. G. “Diocesan Gazette” // PBE. T. 5. Stb. 451-454; Andreev G. L., Troitsky A. N., priest. Christ. periodicals in Russian. lang.: Bibliography. review // Christianity: Encyclopedia. words. M., 1995. T. 3. S. 528-559; Andreev. Christian periodicals; Semibratov V. To know your faith: From the history of the Vyatka spiritual press // ZhMP. 1998. No. 8. S. 44-51; Letenkov E. V. Provincial, regional, military, diocesan statements, 1838-1917. St. Petersburg, 2005; Pruttskova A. S. Modern. religious seal of Russia: (1990-2006): Cat. M., 2007; Razdorsky A. I. Ist.-stat. descriptions of the dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church: (1848-1916). SPb., 2007.

Prot. Alexander Troitsky