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Military clergy reorganization in the Paul’s I of Russia military reform
- Authors: Vasilyev A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University
- Issue: Vol 20, No 3 (2021): Political Communication Models of the Russian State with the Peoples of the Ural-Volga Region, Siberia and Central Asia in the 16th–19th Centuries
- Pages: 426-436
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/27273
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2021-20-3-426-436
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The article examines an important historical stage in the development of military clergy. During this period, effective systems of military administration, training and recruitment and social protection of its members were established. In the process of the Emperor Paul's reform the military clergy acquired the features of a political institution. This was manifested in the active intervention of the state in the managerial system of the clergy. And the head of the military priests becomes the ober-priest of the Russian army and navy. A system of candidates’ selection for the positions of military priests has been built. A specialized educational institution was established for recruiting military clergy from the children of military clergy - the Army Seminary. After leaving the military department, martial ober-priests are provided with places in urban parishes, and martial priests are appointed to the rural churches of the dioceses from which they came to serve. A pension was introduced for the military clergy who were unable to continue serving because of age or illness. The military clergy were extracted from the subordination of the Holy Synod. And in the person of the ober-priest it was subordinated to the highest political leadership. As a result, the organization of the military clergy, which was optimal from the point of view of military-political management and effective use, was integrated into the military organization of the state. But this came into conflict with the canonical church norms and the position of the holy synod. After the tragic death of emperor Paul, this organization was largely dismantled.
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Alexey V. Vasilyev
Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University
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Email: alexv@pstgu.ru
Priest, Kandidat Politicheskih Nauk [Ph.D], Associate Professor of the Department of Systematic Theology and Patristics
23Б, Novokuznetskaya St., Moscow, 115184, RussiaReferences
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