Coleman, Heather J. (2004) Defining heresy: The fourth missionary congress and the problem of cultural power after 1905 in Russia. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Neue Folge, 52 (1). pp. 70-91.
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In July 1908, the most influential leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church assembled in Kiev for the Fourth All-Russian Missionary Congress. With all three metropolitans, ten arch- bishops, twenty-three bishops and over five hundred missionaries, priests, clerical bureaucrats and seminary teachers in attendance, wrote one observer, both the size and the prominence of the gathering were "unprecedented in the chronicles of our missionary congresses".1 Imperial Russia's state church was meeting to discuss how to reconcile its internal mission with the religious toleration laws promulgated during the revolutionary upheaval of 1905. Whereas it had previously been illegal for Orthodox Russians to convert to other faiths, the Decree on Religious Toleration of 17 April 1905 now permitted them publicly to abandon Orthodoxy for another Christian denomination.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | A Church/mission history G Christian traditions/Denominations > Eastern Orthodox |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union > Russian Federation |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2025 04:10 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2025 04:10 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/3192 |
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