Ryazan Diocesan Gazette. Diocesan Gazette Ryazan Diocesan Gazette 1865 1917

The publishing year was counted 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 a different 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, so our diocesan journals, if anything can be of benefit 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).

Event date: 09/13/1865

"Ryazan Diocesan Gazette" - a journal authorized for publication by the Holy Synod at the request of the Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisky Irinarch (Popov), - the most important source on the history of the Ryazan diocese. This official printed organ of the Ryazan diocese was published in Ryazan from September 1865 twice a month - on the 1st and 15th. In 1865-1877. September 1 was considered the date of the beginning of the church year, and the numbering of the magazine corresponded to this. Since 1878, the numbering of issues began on January 1.

In the first issue, the publishers of the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette noted that the magazine was intended “...mainly for ... the clergy and, in accordance with this, we offer it to the clergy for the statement and discussion by the common forces of issues of interest to him ... In our magazine, as a publication of the diocesan proper there should be another prevailing content, that all diocesan newsletters, and therefore ours, should contribute to the excitation and satisfactory solution, mainly of practical questions relating to the improvement of diocesan life. They should regard it as their task to bring the clergy into close contact with practical questions in the diocese, to place them closer to entering real life. And it will be our concern ... to try, to the best of our ability, to arrange the local clergy to clarify their various needs and needs and to start looking for measures to possibly satisfy these needs and to facilitate mental and moral progress for our diocese ... ". At the same time, it was noted: “In an effort to give our publication a local character, at the same time we will not, and should not ... lock ourselves exclusively in our diocese and confine ourselves to solving strictly local issues at home. 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.

The tasks of the publication were defined: “We look at our publication as a magazine, appointed mainly for honest clergy and, in accordance with this, we offer it to the clergy for the statement and discussion by the common forces of issues of interest to him. Of course, non-abstract questions 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 excitement and satisfactory solution, mainly of practical problems. issues related to the improvement of diocesan life. They should regard it as their task to bring the clergy into close contact with practical questions in the diocese, to place them closer to entering 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, so our diocesan journals, if anything can be of benefit to general church history, it is precisely by studying the past and present of their diocese. Our historical materials are generally so scarce that there is a great lack of collection and development of them ... We dare to hope that all enlightened people familiar with the life of our diocese, and especially again our local clergy, who most often come across materials for studying life our diocese, will sympathize with our desire ...

It goes without saying that our publication, being a strictly diocesan publication, must at the same time be a general 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.

Each issue of the magazine had an official and an unofficial section. Until 1889, the informal department was called “Additions to the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette”.

Initially, the "Ryazan Diocesan Gazette" was published at the Ryazan Theological Seminary, in 1867-1896. - at the Ryazan spiritual consistory. Since 1897, the Brotherhood of St. Basil of Ryazan was engaged in publishing the journal, while the official section was edited by the secretary of the Theological Consistory, and the unofficial section until 1911 was edited by the cathedral archpriest, then by the rector of the Ryazan Theological Seminary.

The "Official Department" published orders of the Holy Synod and the emperor related to the Ryazan diocese, orders of the ruling bishop, information about the consecration of churches, about the clergy of the diocese: ordination to the dignity, about appointment to church-priestly places, acceptance for service, dismissal for the state , on exclusion from the lists due to death; the same section also published journals of congresses of the Ryazan clergy, reports of educational institutions of the diocese, the school council and other organizations under the jurisdiction of the diocese.

“In the informal section will be placed:

1. Explanations of various passages of Holy Scripture, extracts from patristic writings relating to pastors and flocks, and especially in relation to their contemporary needs, extracts from the lives of saints, reflections on Christian dogmas, explanatory studies concerning ecclesiastical theological actions and things, and the rights of the church and clergy.

2. Stories from Russian and general history, memories of people who left a good memory in the diocese, instructive incidents from the religious and moral life of the people, edifying incidents from the pastoral activities of the clergy, if possible, with a decision and answers to them.

3. Reverent reflections, words and teachings, compiled in relation to the concepts of the common people.

4. Information and judgments about the current state of the Ryazan diocese, in particular, about the current state of the clergy of the Ryazan diocese, about the state of public schools in it, and some indications regarding the physical, moral and mental education of children and considerations on the course of home and school education of children of the clergy and the people, essays on popular customs and customs, information on current especially remarkable events and happenings in the diocese, if this information is in any way useful for publication in print.

5. Historical research on local Christian antiquities, descriptions of local shrines, temples, historical figures, research on the former position and state of the diocese and materials for these studies.

6. News and notes about some newly published especially remarkable, useful spiritual and pedagogical books; news about spiritual and some secular periodicals, with instructions best articles in them and with extracts from them of what may be of particular interest to the clergy and be useful to him and the people.

7. Brief notes on church affairs abroad.

8. Miscellaneous news and mixture.

The scientific works of Agntsev, priests Dobrolyubov, Alfeev, Krasnov, Luchinsky and others were published on the pages of the "Unofficial Department". They covered the history of churches and monasteries of the Ryazan Diocese, the Ryazan Theological Seminary, the Ryazan Diocesan Women's Theological School, county theological schools, told about St. Gabriel (Gorodkov), Metropolitan Stefan (Yavorsky), Archbishop Simon (Lagov) and other prominent figures of the Ryazan diocese. This department also published sermons and articles of a theological nature, information about significant events in the spiritual life of the Ryazan diocese - such as the construction of churches, the establishment of new societies and trustees.

The duties of the editors of the publication until 1896 were performed by: D. Pravdin (September 1865 - June 1866), N. Malinin (September 1865 - September 1866), Cathedral Archpriest Nikolai Glebov (June 1866 - September 1867), Archpriest Luka Voskresensky (September 1867 - 1889), Archpriest Haralampy Romansky (September 1867 - June 1892), Cathedral Archpriest Nikolai Glebov (June 1892 - October 1, 1893) , Cathedral Archpriest Feodor Tolerov (December 1, 1893 - June 1895). From 1896 the official and unofficial departments had different editors. Editors of the "Official Department": Dimitry Andreev (June 1895 - September 1903), Kh. Popov (April 1904 - June 1905), Archpriest Feodor Tolerov (June 1905 - 1906), G Voskresensky (1907 - March 1909), Troitsky (September 1909 - January 1915), P. Sokolov (1915), M. Krylov (1915 - December 1916), X Govyadsky (December 1916 - April 1917). Editors of the "Unofficial Department": Archpriest Feodor Tolerov (June 1895 - December 1910), Archpriest P. Kazansky (January 1911 - April 1917).

In 1888, due to the changing situation in Russian society, the publishers of the magazine came to the need to change the program of the magazine. The Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk Feoktist (Popov) filed a report on this issue with the Holy Synod. The report was satisfied, and from 1889 the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette began to be published according to a more extensive program. The magazine had seven sections: 1st, official, included decrees, letters, rescripts, circulars, etc.; 2nd - publications on issues of general church and diocesan life, including the religious and moral education of the people; The 3rd section included diocesan news: information about the religious and moral state of the people, essays on local customs and 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 of sectarianism and their pernicious influence on the people; information about the measures taken by local pastors in the fight against sectarianism; on the activities of diocesan missionary institutions; a chronicle of current events in the diocese and in the city of Ryazan; The 4th section was scientific and literary and included words and teachings, scientific articles of spiritual content, brief bibliographic information about books and publications; the 5th included information about the most important orders of the government concerning the general state of the Russian Church; the most important Russian events in general church and other diocesan life, brief news about the most important events in the internal state and public life of Russia; The 6th introduced news from abroad: about significant events in church life, mainly in the Orthodox Churches and Slavic states, about the most important political and social events; The 7th section called "Mixture" printed materials that did not fit into the concept of the above sections.

Since April 1917, the journal "Ryazan Diocesan Gazette" was not published as regularly as before, and under a different name - "Voice of the Free Church". Despite the name change, the publication retained the Orthodox tradition, not deviating into renovationism, which was gaining strength thanks to the support of the new government. By the end of 1918, the periodical diocesan publication ceased to exist.

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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, E.'s program was compiled in 1853 by the Kherson archbishop. St. Innokenty (Borisov). Only 6 years later, it was submitted for approval to the Holy Synod by the Kherson archbishop. Dimitri (Muretov). His petition for permission to publish Kherson Diocesan Gazette in Odessa was granted by the Synod on 11 November. 1859 Decree of the Synod of December 31. the same year, the approved program was sent to all diocesan bishops.

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

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

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

E.'s prototype. and the official served as a model for them. 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 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 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. in. 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 Russia Alexy I in 1904-1905 was an inspector of the Pskov DS and acted as editor of the Pskov Diocesan Gazette, and in 1909-1911. in the position of rector of the Tula DS, he edited the Tula Diocesan Gazette. Editors at E.V. there were other rectors of theological seminaries: archim. ssmch. Ermogen (Dolganev; later Bishop of Tobolsk) in the "Spiritual Bulletin of the Georgian Exarchate" in 1898-1901, archim. ssmch. Thaddeus (Uspensky; later Archbishop of Tver) in the "Olonets EV" in 1903-1908, archim. Anastassy (Gribanovsky; later Metropolitan, First Hierarch of ROCOR) in the Moscow Church Gazette in 1906, archim. ssmch. Methodius (Krasnoperov; later Bishop of Petropavlovsk) in the Ufa Diocesan Gazette in 1908-1913, archim. ssmch. John (Pommer; later Archbishop of Riga) in "Lithuanian EVs" in 1911-1912, archim. ssmch. Lavrenty (Knyazev; later Bishop of Balakhna) in them in 1913-1915, archim. Veniamin (Fedchenkov; later Metropolitan of Saratov) in the "Tauride EV" in 1912-1913, archim. ssmch. Seraphim (Ostroumov; later Archbishop of Smolensk) in Kholmskaya Church Life in 1914-1915. etc. A significant contribution to the publication of E. century. contributed editors - local historians and local historians, such as N. I. Suvorov ("Vologda EV" in 1865-1896), N. N. Korsunsky and M. P. Troitsky ("Yaroslavl EV" in 1871-1898 and 1903-1915 ), prot. Evfimy Setsinsky (“Podolsky EV” in 1892-1905), I. N. Letnitsky (“Astrakhan Diocesan Gazette” in 1896-1918), N.V.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Euphron

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"Among the clergy, the need began to be felt for such a printed organ, on the pages of which it would be possible to raise and solve vital vital issues not only of their department in general, but also of their diocese in particular, such an organ that would correspond to provincial statements" .

The Holy Synod at a meeting on March 27 of the year approved the obligatory subscription to the magazine for each church in one copy and allowed the publication of diocesan newsletters from September of the year, separately indicating that "information about the split and popular prejudices were not placed in the statements" as planned.

The magazine had official and unofficial sections.

AT official department the orders of the Holy Synod and the emperor for the Ryazan diocese, orders of the diocesan authorities, information about ordination to the dignity, about appointment to church-priestly places, acceptance for service, dismissal from the state, about exclusion from the lists due to death, about the consecration of churches were placed. The official department also published reports of the educational institutions of the diocese, the school council and other organizations under the jurisdiction of the diocese, journals of congresses of the Ryazan clergy.

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). Materials on the history of churches and monasteries of the Ryazan diocese were also printed, and correspondence appeared from the villages of the province. Before the informal department was called "Additions to the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette".

Initially, the magazine was published at the Ryazan Theological Seminary, from September 1 to a year - at the Theological Consistory. At this time, an attempt was made to organize feedback with subscribers:

"The connection of the clergy of our diocese with the publication of the diocesan organ over the past year is weakly expressed: three, four small articles by local priests. We earnestly invite the clergy to take part in our publication with all possible efforts" .

The initiative was not successful.

In 2009, the editorial office refused to publish messages from the internal chronicle, because "coverage of such events must inevitably be tinged with one or the other political party" . The content of the journal was formed by reprints from other publications.

Since April, the Ryazan Diocesan Gazette has been published as The Voice of the Free Church. The magazine was published with failures and ceased to exist by the end of the year.

Circulations

• - 1000 copies.
• - 1150 copies.

Editors

• Dmitry Pravdin (September 1865 - June 1866)
• Nikolai Malinin (September 1865 - September 1866)
• Nikolai Glebov (June 1866 - September 1867)
• Luke Voskresensky (September 1867 - 1889)
• Kharlampy Romansky (September 1867 - June 1892)
• Nikolai Glebov (June 1892 - June 1893)
• Fedor Tolerov (? - 1896).

Since the year, the official and unofficial departments have had different editors.