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⭐ Core Definition: Church reform of Peter the Great

The church reform of Peter the Great was a set of changes Peter I of Russia (r. 1682–1725) introduced to the Russian Orthodox Church, especially to church government. Issued in the context of Peter's overall Westernizing reform programme, it replaced the office of the patriarch of Moscow with the Holy Synod and made the church effectively a department of state.

Peter did not abandon Orthodoxy as the main ideological core of the state, but attempted to start a process of Westernization of the clergy, relying on those with a Western theological education.

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Church reform of Peter the Great in the context of 1917–18 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church
Church reform of Peter the Great in the context of Procurator (Russia)

Church reform of Peter the Great in the context of 1917–18 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church

The 1917–1918 Local Council of the Orthodox Church of Russia (Russian: Поместный собор Православной российской церкви) was the first Local Council of the Russian Church since the end of the 17th century. It opened on 15 August 1917 (O.S.) in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. Its most important decision was to restore the Patriarchate in the Russian Church, thereby ending a period of c. 300 years when the Russian Church was governed directly by the Emperor through the Most Holy Synod as a result of Peter the Great's ecclesiastical reforms.

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Church reform of Peter the Great in the context of Procurator (Russia)

The Procurator (Russian: прокурор, tr. prokuror) was an office initially established in 1722 by Peter the Great, the first Emperor of the Russian Empire, as part of the ecclesiastical reforms to bring the Russian Orthodox Church more directly under his control.

The Russian word also has the meaning of prosecutor but in this case the right translation is Delegate (having the procuration for religious affairs).

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