Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Catholic Communities in Russia at the Age of Peter the Great

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2009 2 (3)
Authors
Andreev, Alexander N.
Contact information
Alexander N. Andreev South-Ural State University, 76 Lenin’s, Chelyabinsk, 454080 Russia
Keywords
the epoch of Peter the Great; Catholic Church in Russia; Roman Catholic priesthood and their flock in Russia
Abstract

The article opens various aspects of history of Catholic communities in Russia under Peter the Great. Some questions of distribution of Catholicism in Russia, quantities of Catholics, national and social structure of parishes are investigated. For this aim author analyzed many published items and archival sources. To these sources can be related the documents of Most Holy Governing Synod, memoirs of contemporaries, reports of Jesuits in Russia and other materials. In consequence of the investigation author had revealed the geography of the Russians catholic parishes and traced the process of catholic churches founding.

Pages
435-442
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/1015

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