Arkhangelsk Diocesan Gazette. Newspaper "Diocesan Gazette": general description, history Diocesan Gazette

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 Dimitri 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 Information Support local initiatives of the clergy: the maintenance and improvement of spiritual schools, the election of deanery, deanery congresses, the choice of confessors by the priesthood, etc. In addition, the need was pointed out to cover the common Christ. 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 Kiev, 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 (“Izvestia 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 ed. 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, from 1880 - in Riga ("Rizhsky Diocesan List", from 1887 "Riga Diocesan Gazette") and Tomsk, from 1882 - in Tobolsk, from 1883 - in Mogilev, from 1884 - in Krasnoyarsk (“Yenisei Diocesan News”), since 1885 - in Arkhangelsk (“Arkhangelsk Diocesan News”, since 1888 “Arkhangelsk Diocesan News”) and Kostroma, since 1886 - in Yekaterinburg, since 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 in St. Petersburg ("News on the St. Petersburg diocese"), since 1898 - in Omsk and Petrozavodsk ("Olonets diocesan statements"), since 1900 - in Chita ("Transbaikal diocesan statements" ), since 1901 - in Grodno, since 1903 - in Vladivostok, since 1906 - in Verny (now Alma-Ata) (“Turkestan Diocesan Gazette”) 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 w. "Church Bulletin" at SPbDA.

E.'s prototype. and the official served as a model for them. provincial publications 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 the 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 could not be published (for example, in the Kharkiv diocese after the start of publication under the DS of the 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 prosecutor, as well as the orders of the diocesan authorities, annual reports or extracts from them according to 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. V. and in different years their editions. 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 of church libraries, bookselling and publishing catalogs, indexes of the contents of E. v. 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 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 Palace of Culture, 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 EVs" in 1903-1908, 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 Yekaterinoslav Provincial Committee of the Orthodox Church” (March-Aug. 1917, in September-December came out under the title “Free Church”), “Church Truth: The 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 and diocesan messenger "(1918), "Kiev Diocesan Bulletin" (1918), "Kursk Diocesan Bulletin: Edition 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 Chernihiv Diocese" ( 1918), "Voice of the Podolsk Church" (1918), "Tomsk Church and Public Bulletin" (1918, in 1919 resumed edition. "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. came out 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. diocesan 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), Orlovsky 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; 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 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", "Bulletin of the Belarusian Exarchate", "Moscow EV", "Annunciation of the Perm Diocese", "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 ecclesiastical 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.

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.

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 Dimitri 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 Kiev, 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, from 1880 - in Riga ("Rizhsky Diocesan List", from 1887 "Riga Diocesan Gazette") and Tomsk, from 1882 - in Tobolsk, from 1883 - in Mogilev, from 1884 - in Krasnoyarsk (“Yenisei Diocesan News”), since 1885 - in Arkhangelsk (“Arkhangelsk Diocesan News”, since 1888 “Arkhangelsk Diocesan News”) and Kostroma, since 1886 - in Yekaterinburg, since 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 in St. Petersburg ("News on the St. Petersburg diocese"), since 1898 - in Omsk and Petrozavodsk ("Olonets diocesan statements"), since 1900 - in Chita ("Transbaikal diocesan statements" ), since 1901 - in Grodno, since 1903 - in Vladivostok, since 1906 - in Verny (now Alma-Ata) (“Turkestan Diocesan Gazette”) and Kholm (now Chelm, Poland) (“Kholmskaya Church life").

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. V. 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).

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 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. 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.

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)).

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

According to the publishing year, it was considered from September 1, the numbering of the newspaper was also carried out. The publishing year began to be reckoned 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 journal was given to the brotherhood of St. Basil. From that moment on, the official department was edited by the secretary of the consistory, and the unofficial pre - by the cathedral archpriest, c - by the rector of the theological seminary.

Since April 1917, the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette has been published as The Voice of the Free Church. Apparently, the name change was influenced by the events of the February Revolution, the abdication of the throne of the Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas II, which then dominated Russian society moods. However, in spite of everything, the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette preserved the Orthodox tradition, not deviating into renovationism, which was then gaining strength, thanks to the support of the new government, but came out with failures. By the end of 1918, the diocesan edition ceased to exist.

In the 1920s, under the Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk, Boris, 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 issues were written by hand, and then retyped on a typewriter and sent to the deaneries. The "circulars" contained decrees and directives of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Holy Synod and the diocesan bishop, materials on the current life of the Church, church history, sermons, teachings, and patristic heritage. The Circulars constantly contained materials revealing the essence of the heretical movement of renovationism. In the archives of the FSB of Russia in the Ryazan region, thirty-four issues of the Circulars have been preserved: in 1925, employees of the Ryazan diocesan office, headed by Archbishop Boris, were brought to criminal responsibility. And the issue of the magazine became one of the articles of the 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 renovationist newspaper "Church Renewal" was regularly published.

Editors

September - June - D. Pravdin
September - September - N. Malinin
June - September - Priest N. F. Glebov
September - Archpriest Luke 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.

Official department editors

- 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. Govyadsky

Editors of the informal 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:

We look at our publication as a journal appointed mainly for honest clergy and, in accordance with this, we offer it to the clergy for the statement and discussion of issues of interest to them by common forces. Of course, non-abstract issues should be mainly resolved in our publication ... in our journal, as a proper diocesan publication, there should be another predominant content, that all diocesan journals, and therefore ours, should contribute to the excitation and satisfactory solution, mainly of practical issues, concerning the improvement of diocesan life. They should consider it their task to bring the clergy into close contact with practical matters in the diocese, to place him closer to enter into real life. And it will be our concern ... to try, to the best of our ability, to win over the local clergy to clarify their various needs and needs and to look for measures to possibly satisfy these needs and to facilitate mental and moral progress for our diocese ...

As for our future publication in general, we would like to give it a local character... Like all kinds, our diocesan journals, if they can be of any use to general church history, it is precisely by studying the past and present of their diocese. Our historical materials in general are so scarce that there is a great lack of collection and development of them... We dare to hope that all enlightened people who are familiar with the life of our diocese, and especially again our local clergy, who most often come across materials for studying the life of our diocese, sympathetically respond to our desire.

In striving to give our publication a local character, at the same time we will not, and should not, so to speak, close ourselves exclusively to our diocese and confine ourselves to the domestic solution of strictly local issues. No, we consider it our duty to acquaint our diocese, to the best of our ability, with the literary activities of other dioceses, especially since many of these latter have long been ahead of us in resolving various issues.

It goes without saying that our publication, being a strictly diocesan publication, must at the same time be a generally edifying publication. Among other things, it is our duty to make the diocese familiar with ecclesiastical theology. Articles of scientific, pedagogical, edifying content, and in general - all literary works that can disseminate religious and generally serious information in the diocese and support a truly Christian trend among the people, will always be readily published in our publication.

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

Before the informal department was called "Additions to the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette". With them, the "Missionary Collection" was an appendix, since 6 times a year.

The official department contained orders Holy Synod and the emperor in the Ryazan diocese, orders of the diocesan authorities, information about ordination to the dignity, about appointment to church-priestly places, acceptance into the service, dismissal from the state, about exclusion from the lists due to death, about the consecration of churches. The official department also published reports educational institutions diocese, school council and other organizations under the jurisdiction of the diocese, 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, they published scientific works Ryazan clergy on the history of education (about the diocesan school, theological seminary and theological schools, schools), about prominent figures of the Ryazan diocese (about Metropolitan Stefan, Archbishop Simon, St. Gabriel and others), on the history of churches and monasteries of the Ryazan diocese. Among them are the works of Agntsev, the priests Dobrolyubov, Alfeev, Krasnov, Luchinsky and others.

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

Since that time, the journal has included seven sections:

official(decrees, letters, rescripts, circulars, etc.),
guidance articles(publications on issues of general church and diocesan life, including the religious and moral education of the people),
diocesan news(news about the religious and moral state of the people, essays on 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 outstanding figures in sectarianism and their influence on the people; about the activities of diocesan missionary institutions; about the measures taken by local pastors in the fight against sectarianism; chronicle current events in the diocese and in the city of Ryazan),
scientific and literary department(words and teachings, science articles 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 in general church and other diocesan life in Russia, brief news about the most important events in the internal state and public life Russia),
foreign news(news about significant events in church life abroad, mainly in the Orthodox Churches and Slavic states, news about the most important political and social events abroad),
mixture(materials were printed in this section that could not be placed in any of the listed headings).

"Diocesan Gazette" is a church publication of newspapers, which was published from 1860 to 1922. 63 dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church took part in this project. This project was developed in 1853 by the Kherson Archbishop. And presented to the Holy Synod only six years later. The synod liked the idea, and the approval of the program was signed in November 1859. And at the end of December of the same year, a decree was sent to the dioceses on the beginning of the publication of the Diocesan Gazette. The history of church newspapers is very interesting and informative, it is worth studying in more detail.

The essence of the church project

Submitting a petition to start a new church project, the Kherson Archbishop stated the following considerations:

The publication of Vedomosti significantly reduced the need for correspondence of numerous papers and documents.
Vedomosti could reduce the number of false teachings; they brought the diocesan administration closer to the flock.
Vedomosti will save the local clergy from various trips, and the main news will be available from the publication.

It is known that after the publication of the newspaper, the number of church correspondence decreased by half. The publication made it easier to inform the local clergy. Vedomosti covered information about the state of religious schools, deanery congresses, the election of clergy, and there was also a discussion of general Christian issues.

Local "Vedomosti"

Beginning in 1860, thanks to the intercession of the Bishop of Yaroslavl, local "Diocesan Gazette" began to be published. "Yaroslavskiye Vedomosti" was ahead of Kherson by a couple of months. After that, other local editions of church news began to be printed: Polish, Lithuanian, Arkhangelsk, Yenisei, Caucasian, Stavropol, Kamchatka, etc. Some editions or part of them had a non-standard name. For example, "Spiritual Herald of the Georgian Exarchate", "Arkhangelsk Diocesan News", "News of the Kazan Diocese", "Riga Diocesan Leaflet", "News of the St. Petersburg Diocese", "Kholmsko-Varshavsky Diocesan Bulletin", etc.

Vedomosti came out twice a month, and some of them - every week. The magazines consisted of two parts: official and unofficial. The official one covered the decrees of the diocesan authorities and public institutions, regulatory legal acts emperor, various reports and other information of church organizations and diocesan institutions.

The second part included editions of the holy fathers, sermons, teachings, spiritual advice, conversations, church history works, historical information about dioceses, and much more. Some editions of Diocesan Gazette were published in the form of books, pamphlets and leaflets.

Voronezh editions

"Voronezh Diocesan Gazette" was issued from January 1, 1866 to 1909. At first, newspapers were published twice a month, and since 1910 - weekly.

The publication was published by the Zadonsk and Voronezh dioceses. In addition to the magazine itself, appendices to it were also printed. The magazine covered important decrees and official acts. In the appendix, articles of an instructive nature were printed. Beginning in 1868, the journal was divided into official and unofficial parts, with separate appendices retained. And in 1877, the publication took the old form, in which the unofficial part was located in the appendix. Later, such applications became known as "unofficial part".

In the first years of the life of the publication, it published translations of the works of Clement of Alexandria, the Apostle Hermas, Origen, Blessed Augustine, etc. From 1872 to 1883, the publication printed the Monthly Book of Saints, and also covered a lot of information about local saints. For example, about Tikhon of Zadonsk and Mitrofan, about the Bishop of Voronezh. Numerous articles about church holidays were published, certain Gospel events were described, events that took place in ancient churches, historical facts about local churches. Some of the articles were not published immediately, but after a long time they were nevertheless printed.

"Voronezh Diocesan Vedomosti" did not pay much attention to the history of local churches, since several other newspapers were published in Voronezh, which paid full attention to the history of their region. More attention was paid to the publication of the history of all Rus' and the Russian Church. A cycle of stories about the enlightenment of Rus' and the Russian people was printed, attention was paid to the Great Moscow Cathedral of 1666-1667. A description of local monasteries, churches and religious schools was nevertheless published. Often, biographies of various local spiritual figures were published in the bulletin.

The appendix contained the works of clergy, teachings, conversations, unofficial descriptions of sacred gatherings, and much more. The publication existed until 1918.

In 1990, the "Voronezh Diocesan Bulletin" began to be published again, since 1977 - the newspaper "Voronezh Orthodox", and since 2001 - the newspaper "Obraz".

Oryol editions

"Oryol Diocesan Gazette" began to be published thanks to the initiative of the Bishop of Sevsky and Oryol. The first issue of the magazine appeared in 1865. Pyotr Polidorov became the editor of Oryol Vedomosti. He served as a cathedral archpriest in Orel, was close to the bishop and wrote a separate essay about him.

The purpose of the publication of "Oryol Diocesan Gazette" was to improve the life of the clergy, their desire for spiritual exaltation. The magazine was published not only for clerics, but also for secular people. The publishers tried to make it versatile and interesting for everyone.

Initially, the journal included the following sections:

Orders and resolutions.
Diocesan Chronicle.
Teachings, spiritual conversations, etc.

A year later, the structure of the publication was changed. It began to consist of official and unofficial parts.

The official printed resolutions and decrees of the Holy Synod, various orders of the diocesan leadership, the highest manifestos, reports, information on dismissal and appointment, awards, vacancies for clergy and clergy, as well as the adoption of Christianity by people of a different faith who lived on the territory of the Oryol diocese.

In the unofficial part of the publication, articles of a spiritual and instructive nature were published, statistical data on visiting churches and temples, on theological seminaries and colleges, and on charitable institutions. As well as biographies of clergy, historical information about holy places, announcements, news from other dioceses.

The publication came out a couple of times a month. Its size ranged from one and a half to three printed sheets. Close attention was paid to issues of spiritual life, healthy lifestyle life, historical and local lore materials.

Over the years of its existence, the magazine has changed its printing house several times. At present, the "Oryol Diocesan Gazette" is a valuable information source. Experts have thought more than once about publishing an entire Vedomosti anthology.

Orenburg editions

"Orenburg Diocesan Gazette" was published from 1873 to 1917. The journal had a non-standard name "Orenburg Church and Public Bulletin". It printed the details of the church life of the diocese. Initially, the magazine was published twice a month, later the frequency of publication increased to 52 per year.

"Orenburg Diocesan Gazette", like many others, consisted of two sections: official and unofficial. The editor of the official part was originally Archpriest Vasily Olshansky, and the secretary of the Orenburg Consistory Evfrimovsky-Mirovitsky became the editor of the unofficial part of the journal.

The official part of the publication contained orders and decrees of the Holy Synod, diocesan and higher authorities, protocols of diocesan congresses, information on appointment and dismissal, etc.

In the unofficial section, articles were published about the historical information of the region, spiritual conversations, church holidays, theological issues, statistics on parishioner visits to churches, etc. were discussed.

Moscow editions

Moscow Diocesan Gazette is the official church monthly publication. The newspaper began its existence at the end of the 19th century and is currently being published. For the history of the Russian people, the publication is valuable and important. In it you can learn about the clergy, famous clergy. It reflects information about appointments, dismissals, transfers to another place of service, church awards, dates of death.

"Moscow Diocesan Gazette" originally included two sections: official and unofficial.

The official printed the decisions and decrees of the Holy Synod, information about the appointment and transfer to another place of service of clergy, government decrees and much more.

The unofficial part contained teachings and instructions, stories and narratives about the sacred places of the diocese, unofficial descriptions of church meetings, etc.

Smolensk editions

"Smolensk Diocesan Vedomosti" is a publication of the newspapers of the Smolensk diocese, which was published from 1865 to 1918. The journal began to be published thanks to the initiative of Pavel Lebedev, editor of the Smolensk Theological Seminary. The first issue of the Smolensk Diocesan Gazette was published in 1865.

Like other similar publications, the magazine consisted of an official part and an "addendum". Later it became known as the unofficial part.

The addition contained a variety of sermons, conversations, instructions, information about the clergy of the diocese and statistics of parishes in temples, churches, and monasteries.

The official part, as usual, contained official decrees, documents and materials.

The editors of the "Smolensk Diocesan Gazette" were at different times Archpriest Daniil Petrovich Lebedev, Archpriest Pavel Efimovich Obraztsov, Pavel (Lebedev), Ivan Aleksandrovich Moroshkin, Sergei Alekseevich Solntsev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Vinogradsky, Nikolai Nikolayevich Sokolov, Nikolai Nikitich Redkov, Petr Alekseevich Cheltsov, Semyon Nikolaevich Sametsky.

The newspaper was published twice a month. Initially, its circulation was 800 copies, 600 of which were distributed between the dioceses. "Smolensk Diocesan Gazette" in 1918 ceased to exist. The publication resumed its activities only in 1991. The name of the journal has not changed.

Yekaterinburg editions

"Ekaterinburg Diocesan Gazette" was published from 1886 to 1917 in the Yekaterinburg diocese.

The publication, as usual, contained official and unofficial parts. The official printed official documents, legal acts, reports, information about appointments and dismissals, as well as transfers to another place. Important state issues and decisions of the Holy Synod were also published here.

The unofficial part of the "Ekaterinburg Diocesan Gazette" contained information about parochial schools, monasteries, theological seminaries, as well as the teachings and instructions of the clergy. In the unofficial part of the publication, much attention was paid to the needs of education, spiritual education, and the problems of the Old Believers.

Ryazan

"Ryazan Diocesan Gazette" - a church publication of the Ryazan diocese. The first magazine was published in 1865. Priest Nikolai Glebov initiated the release of the magazine. The Holy Synod signed a decree on the obligatory subscription of all dioceses to " Ryazanskiye Vedomosti". Like other similar newspapers, the magazine had official and unofficial sections.

The official one contained the orders of the emperor for the Ryazan province, decisions of the Holy Synod, orders for ordination to the dignity, diocesan orders, lists of distribution to church and priestly places, information about dismissal. The official section also published information about those who left due to death.

The informal section of the bulletin published information about significant events taking place in the Ryazan region, articles of a theological nature, information about schools, various societies, colleges and guardianships.

The clergy attempted to organize feedback with subscribers of the publication. But this attempt was not successful.

Beginning in April 1917, Diocesan Gazette changed its name to Voice of the Free Church, and a year later the publication ceased to exist altogether.

Kursk editions

"Kursk Diocesan Gazette" began to be issued in 1871. As you can see, the Kursk diocese began publishing church news much later than other dioceses. The magazine was published twice a month. Beginning in 1872, the publication began to be printed weekly.

The journal of the Kursk diocese was founded in the fashion of other church journals. It housed two departments: official and unofficial. In the official one one could find official orders, decrees and documents. In the informal printed information, which was of interest to the common population.

Where else was the church newspaper published?

In addition to the above areas, church publications were published in other parts of the country. For example, there were "Penza Diocesan Gazette". They began to be published in the city of Penza in 1866, and ended their existence only in the early 2000s. "Tobolsk Diocesan Gazette" was published on the territory of the Tobolsk diocese. The publication period is from 1882 to 1919. "Tula Diocesan Gazette" was published from 1862 to 1928.

In the Tomsk diocese, a church magazine was published from 1880 to 1917. The publication was called "Tomsk Diocesan Gazette". In Vologda, a church publication was published from 1864 to 1917. The magazine was called "Vologda Diocesan Gazette".

Collections

All news publications are archived. At the moment, anyone can find the issue he needs and read it. The Diocesan Bulletin Index will help you find the right issue of the journal. On the Internet, there are many sites where you can read or download the material of interest for free.

The most complete collection of "Diocesan Gazette" is stored in the National Library of Russia. During the years 1860-1917, the volume of this collection amounted to more than 3 million sheets.

by the most read magazines"Diocesan Gazette", according to statistics, are considered publications of the Oryol diocese for 1886-1987, Orenburg - for 1899, Voronezh - for 1882, Grodno - for 1902, Astrakhan - for 1876.

Church newspapers and magazines today

The periodical press of the Russian Orthodox Church has long taken its place in the system of journalism and mass media. The printing of church publications, divided by territories, dates back to the 19th century, when the Kherson archbishop proposed his famous project to the Holy Synod. It was then that newspapers and magazines devoted to church life gradually spread throughout Russia.

Thanks to the resumption of church publications, churches and, of course, Orthodox journalism have been revived in modern times.

At present, the Moscow Patriarchate includes 164 dioceses. Each of them has its own printing houses. Each diocese produces more than one Orthodox publication. In fact, at the moment, church magazines and newspapers in the territory Russian Federation issued great amount. The Orthodox Church, by publishing its literature, not only facilitates communication between dioceses, but also encourages an increasing number of believers to visit their parishes.

The titles of today's newspapers are varied. The main feature of church publications is the division of the readership on a territorial basis. The diocesan press is currently distinguished by its latency, that is, concealment from a wide audience. This factor greatly complicates its detailed study. Another distinguishing feature of religious publications is the non-periodicity of publications. This is due to the fact that often non-professional journalists work with this literature. Many readers of church magazines and newspapers of our time are faced with the problem of the disappearance of the publication. The man is confused, not understanding where his favorite press has gone.

How is the type of publication determined? Currently, the dioceses opt for the publication of newspapers. This is due to the lower cost of the product. The fact is that not every diocese can afford to publish a colorful magazine. This is an expensive pleasure.

But larger dioceses also publish religious literature in journal form. This makes it possible to cover a greater number of church issues. The magazines are published in the following dioceses: St. Petersburg, Tver, Voronezh, etc. These publications are mainly targeted at the clergy. But a lot of attention is paid to them and a wide range of the public. It covers general Christian problems, the history of religion and the Church. "Moscow Diocesan Gazette" on Lately received wide popularity among the population of Moscow and the Moscow region. By church standards, the Moscow magazine has become one of the most powerful publications, its volume is more than 200 pages. The magazine is very popular among the believing population of Russia.

The St. Petersburg Eparchial Gazette, which began to be published with the blessing of Metropolitan John in 1990, has chosen its own path. The magazine is published with a circulation of 50,000 copies. It has a non-standard format. Its size is equal to A4 sheet, thickness - 90 pages. The magazine focuses on the missionary direction. main goal publication is a call to non-churched people to faith. "St. Petersburg Diocesan Gazette" has two sections: official and unofficial. The first of which is only a few pages long. The main part falls on the discussion of universal problems and life issues.

Different publications, adhering to the basic traditional principles of church journals, may differ significantly from each other, have their own individual face.

And yet the most published form of religious literature remains the newspaper. The chairman of the Publishing Council of the Moscow Patriarchate said in 1998: “The most common type of publishing activity in the dioceses is the publication of the diocesan newspaper. It can be multi-page or just a piece of paper, but one way or another it carries information about the life of the diocese. Among the dioceses for which we have information, only two do not have a diocesan newspaper. Moreover, in a number of cases, not one, but several newspapers are published in the diocese at the same time (and I do not mean the Moscow and St. Petersburg eparchies, where the situation with publishing and journalistic activities is special). So, in the Tver diocese, in addition to the newspaper "Orthodox Tver", newspapers are also published in Kimry and Rzhev; in Voronezh - "Voronezh Orthodox" and "Lipetsk Orthodox"; in Yekaterinburg - "Monastyrsky Blagovest".

"Nizhniy Novgorod Diocesan Gazette" is a clear proof of the good performance of this press. This is a young publication that is developing quite rapidly. The circulation of Vedomosti is increasing every day. The newspaper is the most popular publication in its region. In 2006, at the Orthodox festival "Faith and the Word", the editors of Novgorodskiye Vedomosti received an award in the "Image of Beloved Russia" nomination. The newspaper is published twice a month in A3 format. The first and last pages of the edition are in color, the rest are two-color. The circulation is already approaching 30,000 copies, which indicates the popularity of this type of press not only among the church circle of subscribers, but in a wide public circle.

The presentation of the material in the newspaper is quite interesting. The official information has been moved to the second half of the issue. It is divided into parts and served to the reader in small portions. The new clergy sent to serve in the Novgorod region appear to the reader not as a dry, uninteresting list, but with detailed description. Brief information about them and photographs are placed in the newspaper.

Church records in the life of society

Church literature plays a huge role in public life. Currently, many teachers use the Diocesan Gazette to study the history of the church, the role of the clergy in the political, economic and social life states. Such publications, which existed in almost every field, are an important source of information.

Mainly data historical sources used to study the following materials:

genealogy of clergy and clergy;
stories about donations to churches and temples;
church-administrative structure of the dioceses;
social activity of the clergy.

The genealogy of the clergy and clergy differs from the compilation of the genealogical tree of representatives of other classes. Here you need to own additional information, which can be found in the Diocesan Gazette. For example, clear sheets, service records. Here you can also find out the age, marital status, education of a particular minister of a particular church.

Studying the history of donations to churches and temples provides an opportunity to learn a lot interesting facts about temple building in Russia. The "Diocesan Gazette" contains the names of benefactors, the amount of donations, dates and much more.

The history of the social activities of the clergy can be found in the reports of Orthodox public organizations. Such reports were usually located in the official part of the publication.

Information about the church-administrative structure of the dioceses can be obtained from the lists of deaneries and distributions.

The Diocesan Vedomosti newspaper can rightfully be called one of the greatest church projects. The beginning of the publication of religious literature contributed to the reduction of correspondence, saved the clergy from unnecessary useless trips. Vedomosti became not only a way of enlightenment, but also a way of communication between churches and dioceses. Thus, the clergy were able to learn important news, for which they had previously had to make long trips. The division of the publication into two parts - official and unofficial - meant that the literature was intended not only for the clergy, but also for the common people. Almost every province had its own publication, printing house. "Diocesan Gazette" helped to revive the church after the persecution. Their considerable merit is the introduction of the population to the faith. At present, quite a lot of Orthodox newspapers and magazines are being published. It is noteworthy that such literature is also interesting to the ordinary reader. It covers universal and Christian problems, shrines and holy places, religious tours and pilgrimage trips. The official part of publications is much reduced, because now is the century information technologies, and the clergy have many other ways to share information. Nevertheless, Diocesan Gazette made a huge contribution to the development of Russian culture. They are valued not only by historians, but also by ordinary people.