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local officials church periodicals (magazines) published in 63 dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1860-1922. For the first time, the E.V. 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. Dimitry (Muretov). His petition for permission to publish the Kherson Diocesan Gazette in Odessa was granted by the Synod on November 11. 1859 By decree of the Synod of December 31. That same year, the approved program was sent to all diocesan bishops.

In a petition in favor of publishing E. v. archbishop Demetrius 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) receipt by the local clergy of the information they need, “and many of the clergy, being notified through statements, would not have the need to travel ... to the diocesan city for information about the fate of their requests, about idle places, about the successes of their children , studying at the seminary,” etc.; 3) “a new way of pastoral action on the flock... both with words of edification and consolation, and with a warning against the infection and weeds of various false teachings and non-Christian customs, and with appeals to deeds of charity and other godly deeds.” E.v. were called upon to “revitalize” the entire diocesan administration and bring it closer to the flock. The same and other arguments were given later. at the beginning of the publication of new diocesan journals. Thus, in the editorial preface to No. 1 of “Ekaterinoslav Diocesan Gazette” (1872. No. 1. P. 1-7) it was stated that the publication was necessary for the purpose of “a more lively exchange, on the one hand, of orders, on the other - reports, between the administrative diocesan authority and controlled 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 information support for local initiatives of the clergy: the maintenance and improvement of spiritual schools, elections of deans, dean congresses, 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. Neil (Isakovich) according to a program similar to the plan of Archbishop. Innocent, the Yaroslavl Diocesan Gazette began to be published, 2.5 months ahead of the Kherson EV. Most 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, from 1864 - in Vologda and N. Novgorod, from 1865 - in Vladimir, Orel, Ryazan, Saratov and Smolensk, from 1866 - in Voronezh and Penza, from 1867 g. - in Kazan ("News of the Kazan Diocese"), Chisinau, Kremenets ("Volyn Diocesan Gazette", since 1908 published in Zhitomir), Perm, Samara and Kharkov, from 1868 - in Minsk, from 1869 - in Moscow (from 1880 “Moscow Church Gazette”), Novocherkassk (“Don Diocesan Gazette”) and Simferopol (“Tavrichesky Diocesan Gazette”), from 1871 - in Belgorod (“Kursk Diocesan Gazette”, from 1882 published in Kursk), from 1872 - in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk), from 1873 - in Orenburg and Stavropol (Caucasian Diocesan Gazette, from 1886 Stavropol Diocesan Gazette), from 1874 - in Vitebsk (Polotsk Diocesan Gazette"), from 1875 - in Astrakhan and Novgorod, from 1876 - in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), from 1877 - in Warsaw ("Kholm-Warsaw Diocesan Bulletin") and Tver, from 1879. - in Ufa, from 1880 - in Riga ("Riga Diocesan Leaflet", from 1887 "Riga Diocesan Gazette") and Tomsk, from 1882 - in Tobolsk, from 1883 - in Mogilev, from 1884 - in Krasnoyarsk ("Yenisei Diocesan Gazette"), from 1885 - in Arkhangelsk ("Arkhangelsk Diocesan News", from 1888 "Arkhangelsk Diocesan Gazette") and Kostroma, from 1886 - in Yekaterinburg, from 1887 - in Yakutsk , from 1891 - in Tiflis (now Tbilisi) ("Spiritual Herald of the Georgian Exarchate"), from 1894 - in Blagoveshchensk ("Kamchatka Diocesan Gazette", from 1899 "Blagoveshchensk Diocesan Gazette") and Pskov, from 1895. - in Vladikavkaz and St. Petersburg ("News of the St. Petersburg Diocese"), from 1898 - in Omsk and Petrozavodsk ("Olonets Diocesan Gazette"), from 1900 - in Chita ("Zabaikalsky Diocesan Gazette" ), from 1901 - in Grodno, from 1903 - in Vladivostok, from 1906 - in Verny (now Alma-Ata) ("Turkestan Diocesan Gazette") and Kholm (now Chelm, Poland) ("Kholm Church life").

In 1906-1915 official editions of E. v. published in every diocese, except for the dioceses of the Georgian Exarchate (“Spiritual Bulletin of the Georgian Exarchate” was closed in May 1906, resumed as “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. “Karelian News” published church chronicles for the Finnish diocese, “Lists of clergy” (1915), “Journals of the pastoral congress of the clergy of the Finnish diocese” (1915-1916). E.v. They began to leave before the officials. publications of the Synod and its central institutions, and in many cases. in 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 topics 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 w. “Spiritual Conversation”, and in 1875-1894 - in the railway. "Church Bulletin" at SPbDA.

Prototype E. v. and the official served as a model for them. publications of the provinces of the Russian Empire - provinces. statements, the program of which was determined by the “Regulations on the procedure for conducting cases in provincial boards” dated July 3, 1837. Gub. statements began to be published in 1838 in 44 provinces at once, and in total in 1838-1917. they were published in 82 provinces and regions (all except the provinces of the Grand Duchy of Finland), 19 of which did not have their own Orthodox Church. dioceses (some provinces of the Kingdom of Poland, the Baltic region, 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 Provincial Gazette from the time of their foundation (1838) to January 1889 and concerning the Arkhangelsk diocese / Compiled by priest N. I. Varfolomeev. Lip. 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, the region could have several. differ from existing ones, and with the permission of the Synod. The initiators or trustees of the publication of many. E.v. there were outstanding bishops who published their sermons, teachings, ascetic, theological and church-historical works in them. Yes, St. Feofan the Recluse was the initiator of the publication and one of the authors of the Tambov Diocesan Gazette and the Vladimir Diocesan Gazette. E.v. were more diverse in appearance and content than lips. gazettes, but were published less frequently (from 1 time a week to 1 time a month, provincial ones - from 1 to 6 times a week). They had appendices, and important articles were often published in separate editions.

E. v., as a rule, consisted of 2 parts (or departments): official and unofficial (the latter was sometimes called an “addition” to E. v., for example, in the “Vologda Diocesan Gazette”, “Irkutsk Diocesan Gazette”, “Tambov” EV", "Kherson EV", etc.), in exceptional cases - from 3 parts ("Voronezh Diocesan Gazette" in 1868-1876 consisted of official, unofficial parts and an addition). Sometimes E. v. were published without an unofficial part (for example, “Novgorod Diocesan Gazette” in 1875-1893, “Simbirsk Diocesan Gazette” in 1876-1895, many publications 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, “News on the Kazan Diocese” was published as an appendix to the journal “Orthodox Interlocutor” in 1867-1890), and unofficial. some may not have been published (for example, in the Kharkov diocese after the start of publication under the DS journal “Faith and Reason”; “Kharkov Diocesan Gazette” was transformed into the official department of this magazine called “Leaflet for the Kharkov Diocese” (1884-1903) , “News on the Kharkov diocese” (1904-1906), further in the heading “News and notes on the Kharkov diocese”). Unofficial part could be published either more often than official (approaching the format and content of a newspaper) or less often (like a periodic collection of edifying and local history reading).

In the official part, all the most important manifestos, decrees, commands and rescripts of emperors, decrees, orders, definitions, relations of the Senate, State were printed. Council, Cabinet of Ministers and other state. institutions, the Synod and its chief prosecutor, as well as orders of the diocesan authorities, annual reports or extracts from them for the consistory, DS, other educational institutions and institutions of the diocese. Of great interest for local church history and the genealogy of the clergy are the lists of employees in the ecclesiastical department published here, reports of changes in service (ordinations, appointments, transfers, deaths), awards and promotion to ranks, contributions to emerital funds and the issuance of benefits from them, rank lists of graduates and students of theological seminaries and schools, exam schedules, lists of vacant places for clergy and clergy (sometimes including prosphora servers), schedules of sermons in the cathedral (sometimes in churches in county towns). In some E. v. in the official The part also contained journals, minutes and reports of diocesan and district congresses of the clergy and school congresses, information about bishop's services and travel routes for viewing the churches of the diocese, reports of diocesan missionaries on the state of the Old Believers and sectarianism within the diocese, lists of baptized persons and those affiliated to Orthodoxy, etc. confessions, reports of brotherhoods, 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 unofficial ones. parts, as well as in the form of appendices to one or another part, with separate pagination and sometimes with its own title page.

Unofficial some contained sermons, speeches, teachings, apologetic and catechetical texts, articles on theology, liturgics, church history, pedagogy, missionary work, Old Believers, sectarianism, other faiths, etc. Reviews of spiritual and secular literature, anniversary articles about rus. 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 E. V. and in different years of their publication. Of greatest interest to the researcher are those constantly published in unofficial publications. parts of the article and documents of a historical and local history nature: reviews of the trips of bishops and their diaries, containing descriptions of parishes and characteristics of clergy; diaries and reports of 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 devotees of piety, obituaries, memoirs. In some dioceses, work was actively carried out to analyze and describe church archives, for which special scientific societies 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. v. 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. Sometimes separate prayers and dictionary materials were published in languages ​​(for example, in the Kalm language in the “Don EVs”).

All E.v. had applications in the form of books, brochures and leaflets, in addition to official ones. documents (lists of parishes, address and other reference books, reports, minutes, 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 of church libraries, bookselling and publishing catalogues, indexes of the contents of E. v. Other periodicals or ongoing publications (magazines, newspapers, leaflets) could also be published as a supplement.

E.v. were a purely church departmental publication, the staff of which consisted of an editor, proofreader and writer, sometimes 1-2 assistant editors. Very often editing official and unofficial parts were carried out separately, in these cases official. part was usually signed by the secretary or other official of the consistory, and the unofficial. part - the rector or other employee of the DS or DU. A. G. Stadnitsky (later Metropolitan of Tashkent Arseny) was a teacher at the Chisinau DS and edited the “Kishinev EVs” in 1887-1895. Bud. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' 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. As rector of the Tula DS, he edited the Tula Diocesan Gazette. Editors in E. v. There were other rectors of theological seminaries: Archimandrite. sschmch. Ermogen (Dolganev; later Bishop of Tobolsk) in the “Spiritual Bulletin of the Georgian Exarchate” in 1898-1901, Archimandrite. sschmch. Thaddeus (Uspensky; later Archbishop of Tver) in the “Olonets EVs” in 1903-1908, archim. Anastasius (Gribanovsky; later Metropolitan, First Hierarch of the ROCOR) in the Moscow Church Gazette in 1906, Archimandrite. sschmch. Methodius (Krasnoperov; later Bishop of Petropavlovsk) in the “Ufa Diocesan Gazette” in 1908-1913, Archimandrite. sschmch. John (Pommer; later Archbishop of Riga) in the “Lithuanian Evangelists” in 1911-1912, archim. sschmch. Lavrenty (Knyazev; later Bishop of Balakhninsky) in them in 1913-1915, archimandrite. Veniamin (Fedchenkov; later Metropolitan of Saratov) in the “Tauride EVs” in 1912-1913, archim. sschmch. Seraphim (Ostroumov; later Archbishop of Smolensk) in “Kholm Church Life” in 1914-1915. and others. Significant contribution to the publication of E. v. contributed by 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 ("Podolsk EV" in 1892-1905), I. N. Letnitsky ("Astrakhan Diocesan Gazette" in 1896-1918), N.V. Malitsky ("Vladimir EV" in 1903-1919).

Budget E.v. included payment for the work of a censor, usually appointed from among the city clergy, and payment of fees to the authors of articles. Topical polemical notes and other articles that went beyond the publication program, as a rule, were not paid for. For plural dioceses of E. v. remained the only local church magazine. Subscription to the publication was mandatory for all parishes of the diocese, depending on their number of copies. ranged from several hundreds up to 1-1.5 thousand copies. If a diocese did not yet have its own publications, a publication from one of the neighboring dioceses could be temporarily distributed in it. For example, in 1863-1879. The only “Irkutsk EVs” in Siberia were distributed in several. dioceses and placed official. documents and other materials relating to these dioceses. If in the publishing E. century. The diocese did not have its own DS, they regularly contained information about the seminary, where the children of clergy and clerks of this diocese studied.

With the revolutionary upheavals of 1905-1907. Attempts by some editors or newly formed editorial committees to transform E. v. were involved. into “church-public” publications, which sometimes led to their renaming. This is how the “Saratov Spiritual Bulletin” (September 1905 - March 1913), “Orthodox Podolia: Organ of the clergy of the Podolsk diocese” (1906-1917), “Tavrichesky Church and Public Bulletin” (in 1906-1917 was published instead of the unofficial part of the “Tavrichesky EV"), "Nizhny Novgorod Church and Social Bulletin" (1906-1918), "Yenisei Church Bulletin: Weekly Church and Social Journal" (Jan. 1907 - July 1908), "Kaluga Church and Social Bulletin" (Feb. 1907 - 1918 ), “Bulletin of the Vilna Orthodox Holy Spiritual Brotherhood” (in 1907-1916 it was published instead of the unofficial part of the “Lithuanian EBs”, in 1907-1908 - also instead of the unofficial part of the “Grodno Diocesan Gazette”), “Faith and Life: Journal of the Chernigov diocese" (1912-1917), gas. "Chernigov Church and Public Bulletin" (1914-1917). In 1915, in connection with the evacuation of institutions from the occupied West. regions stopped publishing “Grodno EV”; “Riga EVs” were published in Yaroslavl (1915) and N. Novgorod (1915-1917), “Warsaw Diocesan Leaflet” and “Kholm Church Life” (1915-1917), as well as “Lithuanian EVs” (1916) - in Moscow, “Minsk Diocesan Gazette” - in Ryazan (1915-1917).

After the February Revolution of 1917, pl. E.v. ceased to exist, others were published irregularly, sometimes in newspaper format. New titles appeared: “Bulletin of the Ekaterinoslav Provincial Committee of the Orthodox Church” (March-Aug. 1917, published in Sep.-Dec. under the name “Free Church”), “Church Truth: Free Voice of the Clergy and Laity on Church Affairs” (Apr. - Nov. 1917, with the appendix “News of the Simbirsk Diocese” - until July 1918), “Orenburg Church and Public Bulletin” (Apr. 1917 - Dec. 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 - Nov. 1919), "Bessarabian Church Voice" and "Voice of the Bessarabian Church" (1917), "Petrograd Church and Diocesan Bulletin "(1918), "Kiev Diocesan Bulletin" (1918), "Kursk Diocesan Bulletin: Publication of the clergy and laity of the Kursk diocese" (1918), "Official news of the Omsk diocese" (1918), "Voice of the clergy and laity of the Chernigov diocese" ( 1918), “The Voice of the Podolsk Church” (1918), “Tomsk Church and Public Bulletin” (1918, the publication was resumed in 1919. "Tomsk Diocesan Gazette"), "Ufa Church-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 were in the provinces occupied by the Bolsheviks (“Vladimir EV”, “Novgorod EV” and “Bulletin of the Oryol Diocesan Council” ). In 1920-1922. “Arkhangelsk EVs” (Jan.-Feb. 1920), “Orders of the Supreme Church Authority” (Vyatka, 1920), “Voice of the Free Church” (Vladivostok, 1920), “News of the Diocesan Council” (Vladivostok, 1921-1922), were published. “Transbaikal Church and Public Bulletin” (Chita, Sep. 1921 - Oct. 1922).

Total pre-revolutionary and successive editions of 1917-1922. used no less than 107 different titles. Only a few of them have detailed general indexes (“Podolsk EV” for 1862-1905, “Penza Diocesan Gazette” for 1866-1900, “Irkutsk EV” for 1863-1904, “Minsk EV” for 1868-1897) or pointers to one from parts (to the unofficial part of the “Chernigov Diocesan News” for 1861-1905, “Vyatka Diocesan News” for 1863-1912, “Poltava Diocesan News” for 1863-1912, “Voronezh EV” for 1866-1915, “Volynsky EV” for 1867-1907, “Kishinev 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 contents 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, Olonetsk, Pskov, Riga, Turkestan, Ufa , as well as the Georgian Exarchate) have only annual tables of contents. Total in 1860-1916. 2581 annual set of E.V. was released. with 80 titles, publications are stored in the Russian National Library (2522 complete sets and 53 incomplete) and the Russian State Library (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) many. there are no publications, and most of the available ones are presented with gaps or fragments; Only in certain regions, regional and republican libraries and archives are local publications collected. Editions 1917-1922 in the complex are not collected anywhere, many. numbers cannot be found in any repository.

In 1922-1928. The diocesan departments of the renovationists published at least 38 periodicals, usually short-lived. Some of them had traditions. for E. v. titles: “Tula Church Bulletin” (1923), “Tula Church Bulletin” (1924-1928), “Samara Church Bulletin” (1924), “Vyatka Diocesan News” (1924), “Oryol Diocesan Bulletin” (1925), “Arkhangelsk Church Bulletin” 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; Kiev, 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 were not previously diocesan centers (Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd), Chelyabinsk, Pyatigorsk, Minusinsk, Klin). In the end 20s The publication of all diocesan periodicals in the USSR, including renovation ones, ceased.

In Russian abroad in the 20s. the publication of the “Lithuanian Orthodox Diocese” was 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), “Bulletin of the Russian Western European Patriarchal Exarchate” (Paris, 1947-1989), several. diocesan journals of the ROCOR. Following the example of E. v. Uniat was published in Austria-Hungary. magazines (from 1886 - in the Przemysl and Stanislavov dioceses, from 1889 - in Lviv), some of them continued to be published in interwar Poland, for example. “Peremeski diocesan vidomosti” (1919-1939). After the Uniates joined the Orthodox Church. Orthodox church magazine was published in Lvov. Lviv-Ternopil diocese “Eparhial Visnik” (1946-1948, from No. 2 for 1948 “Orthodox Visnik”, since 1968 published in Kyiv). Dr. the attempt to publish a diocesan magazine in the USSR was short-lived: in 1948-1950. 4 issues were published. "News: Bulletin of the Riga Diocese."

After the resumption of diocesan publishing activities of the Russian Orthodox Church at the end. 80s XX century Periodical publications of the dioceses also appeared, among which many were called E. v. and even pointed to the continuity of the traditions of pre-revolutionary magazines. The first in 1989 were “Samara EVs”, “Bulletin of the Riga-Latvian Diocese” and “Minsk EVs”. In 1990, the “Voronezh Diocesan Bulletin”, “Bulletin of the Belarusian Exarchate”, “Moscow Bulletin”, “Blagovestnik of the Perm Diocese”, “St. Petersburg Bulletin”, “Tver Bulletin” and the newspapers “Vyatka Diocesan Bulletin”, “Orthodox Bulletin” appeared. Sverdlovsk diocese”, “Blagovest” (Kostroma), “Kursk evangelicals”, “Eparhial visnik” (Mukachevo, Ternopil), “Omsk evangelicals”, “Gazette of the Tobolsk-Tyumen diocese”, “Ryazan church bulletin” (since 1992 magazine), "Penza EV" (magazine since 1998). Afterwards New editions began to be published every year. Currently Nowadays, 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. v. (“Brest EVs”, “Lipetsk EVs”, “Novogrudskiy EVs”, “Saranskiy EVs”, “EVs” (Syktyvkar)).

Modern Diocesan periodicals differ significantly from pre-revolutionary ones. More than 3/4 of them are newspapers, there are few departmental publications intended primarily 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, and have sections or supplements for children. As in pre-revolutionary periodicals, they reprint theological, apologetic, polemical and other articles from central church and secular publications, as well as the Lives of saints and devotees of piety, excerpts from the works of St. fathers, sermons, spiritual stories and poems from editions of the 19th - early. XX century A chronicle of church life, historical and local history articles about monasteries, churches and local shrines, Lives of new martyrs and confessors, memoirs, reviews of books and magazines, etc. are published.

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Christian periodicals; Semibratov V. To know your faith: From the history of the Vyatka spiritual press // ZhMP. 1998. No. 8. P. 44-51; Letenkov E.V. Provincial, regional, military, diocesan statements, 1838-1917. St. Petersburg, 2005; Pruttskova A. S. Modern. religious Russian press: (1990-2006): Cat. M., 2007; Razdorsky A.I. Historical-stat. descriptions of the dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church: (1848-1916). St. Petersburg, 2007.

Prot. Alexander Troitsky

The publishing year was counted from September 1, and the numbering of the newspaper was also carried out. The publishing year began to be counted from January 1.

Initially published at the theological seminary, then, from to , at the consistory. Vedomosti was published according to a new, more extensive program. The management of the magazine was transferred to the brotherhood of St. Basil. From that moment on, the official department was edited by the secretary of the consistory, and the unofficial department was edited by the cathedral archpriest, and by the rector of the theological seminary.

In the 1920s, under Archbishop Boris of Ryazan and Zaraisk, an attempt was made to revive the diocesan periodical press. During this period, the Ryazan diocesan office published the magazine “Circulars”. Its chief editor and compiler was Archbishop Boris himself. The next numbers were written by hand, and then retyped on a typewriter and sent out to the deaneries. The “circulars” contained decrees and orders of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Holy Synod and the diocesan bishop, materials about the current life of the Church, church historical information, sermons, teachings and patristic heritage. The Circulars constantly contained materials revealing the essence of the heretical movement of renovationism. Thirty-four issues of “Circulars” have been preserved in the archives of the Russian FSB Directorate for the Ryazan Region: in 1925, employees of the Ryazan diocesan chancellery, headed by Archbishop Boris, were brought to criminal liability. And the publication of the magazine became one of the articles of accusation. This is all the more regrettable because at the same time, on the territory of the Ryazan diocese, with the support of the official authorities, a full-length renovation newspaper, “Church Renewal,” was regularly published.

Editors

• September - June - D. Pravdin
• September - September - N. Malinin
• June - September - priest N. F. Glebov
• September - Archpriest Luka Voskresensky
• September - June - Archpriest Kharlampy Romansky
• June - June - Cathedral Archpriest N. F. Glebov
• December - - Archpriest Fyodor Talerov

The official and unofficial departments had different editors.

Editors of the official department

• - September - D. Andreev
• April - June - X. Popov
• June - - Archpriest Fyodor Tolerov
• - March - G. Voskresensky
• September - January - Trinity
• - P. Sokolov
• - December - M. Krylov
• December - April - X. Goviadsky

Editors of the unofficial department

• January - December - Archpriest Fyodor Talerov
• January - April - Archpriest P. Kazansky

Program

In the first issue, the publishers of the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette defined their tasks as follows:

Initially, the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette had two departments official And informal departments.

Previously, the unofficial department was called “Additions to the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette.” Under them, the supplement was the “Missionary Collection”, from 6 times a year.

The official department contained orders of the Holy Synod and the Emperor for the Ryazan diocese, orders of the diocesan authorities, information on ordination, appointment to priestly positions, acceptance into service, dismissal from the staff, exclusion from the lists due to death, and consecration of churches. . The official department also published reports from educational institutions of the diocese, the school council and other organizations under the jurisdiction of the diocese, and journals of congresses of the Ryazan clergy.

The unofficial department, in addition to articles of a theological nature, published information about significant events in spiritual life in Ryazan and the Ryazan diocese (about the opening and activities of schools, colleges, churches, societies and trustees). In addition, scientific works of the Ryazan clergy were published on the history of education (about the diocesan school, theological seminary and theological schools, schools), about prominent figures of the Ryazan diocese (about Metropolitan Stephen, Archbishop Simon, St. Gabriel and others), on the history of churches and monasteries Ryazan diocese. Among them are the works of Agntsev, priests Dobrolyubov, Alfeev, Krasnov, Luchinsky and others.

In 1888, due to the changing situation in Russian society, the publishers of the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette also changed the program of the magazine. The report on this by Archbishop Theoktist of Ryazan and Zaraisk was satisfied by the Decree of His Imperial Majesty and the Holy Synod.

From that time on, the magazine included seven sections:

• official(decrees, charters, rescripts, circulars, etc.),
• guidelines(publications on issues of general church and diocesan life, including on the religious and moral education of the people),
• diocesan news(news about the religious and moral state of the people, sketches of local customs, superstitions, etc., news about the pastoral activities of the local clergy, about the state of parochial schools and other educational institutions run by the clergy; information about local heresies and schisms, about prominent figures in sectarianism and their influence on the people; about the activities of diocesan missionary institutions; about measures taken by local pastors in the fight against sectarianism; a chronicle of current events in the diocese and in the city of Ryazan);
• scientific and literary department(words and teachings, scientific articles of spiritual content, brief bibliographic information about books and publications),
• internal news(information about the most important orders of the government concerning the general state of the Russian Church; about the most important events of general church and other diocesan life in Russia, brief news about the most important events in the internal state and public life of Russia),
• foreign news(news about significant events in church life abroad, mainly in Orthodox Churches and Slavic states, news about the most important political and social events abroad),
• mixture(this section contained materials that could not be placed in any of the listed sections).