Holy Governing Synod | synod, Moscow, Russia | Britannica (original) (raw)

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role in Russian history

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  In Russian Empire: Church and education
  …to the state through the Holy Governing Synod, a ministry of ecclesiastical affairs under the direction of a lay chief procurator. The church—in 1722 the landlord of about 1 million peasant families—was nationalized also in the economic sense: the income from its lands was passed on to the state. Thus…
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Russian Orthodox church

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  In Russian Orthodox Church
  …and replaced it with the Holy Governing Synod, which was modeled after the state-controlled synods of the Lutheran church in Sweden and Prussia and was tightly controlled by the state. The chief procurator of the synod, a lay official who obtained ministerial rank in the first half of the 19th…
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