title: Alexander Kukulevsky’s reform project of the American orthodox exarchate
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metadata.value: Tereshina, Olga V.
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metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:30:13Z
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metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:30:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-12
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metadata.value: Tereshina O. V. Alexander Kukulevsky’s reform project of the American orthodox exarchate. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2016, issue 4, pp. 211–222.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2016.416
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/5934
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metadata.value: A report from the archive of the Orthodox church of America is analyzed as the project of reform of
  church management of 1937. It is researched firstly in domestic historiography as the independence
  scheme of the American exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) by A. Kukulevsky, who
  was active Church leader, the author of many organizational and functional reforms. Claiming the
  priority of his own project and the analysis of his own experience, A. Kukulevsky listed the historical
  achievements of the North American metropolitanate. Putting forward the key idea of the exarchate’s
  unity, religion as analog of ideology, the protopresbyter explained the need for change not by the
  atheistic policy of the Soviet Union, but by disagreement within the foreign Orthodox episcopate. The content of the project listed the difficulties of the Archdiocese, primarily, the protest of part of the
  priests, the overproduction of them, loss of unity, financial problems, and the spread of ecclesiastical
  separatism. Like other theories from the 1930s, A. Kukulevsky’s scheme proclaimed nationality as
  bases of religion’s social institutes and as opposition to Bolshevism. At the same time, the option
  of leadership as proposed in the Church was like the Soviet scheme of government: It put forward
  the collective model (Council of bishops) as senior administrative authority and in its absence, the
  Metropolitan as the initiator and head of all administrative Affairs. The Metropolitan Council was a
  major financial agency.
  A. Kukulevsky as the project author contradicted himself. Striving for mutual control of the
  proposed management bodies, he tried simultaneously to protect the bishops from interfering with
  each other. Maxim independence was declared for members of the Church Federation and unity as
  their goal. The author of the document contradicted himself in the declaration of the high number
  of church’s officials as a difficulty of a metropolitanate and at the same time increasing its religious
  bureaucracy.
  One of the main goals of A. Kukulevsky was to expand the social base of Orthodoxy in America
  by intervention in education, culture, journalism and contacts with the national and patriotic
  organizations. A. Kukulevsky did not take note of these troubles and announced own scheme as the
  most practical, emphasizing the warlike atmosphere that was sensed by competent people. Refs 33.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 2. History;Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: archive of Orthodox Church of the America
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. Kukulevsky
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the difficulties and reform of the church’s management of the North American Metropolitanate of ROC during the 1930s
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: author’s self-contradictions
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intervention in education and national
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: patriotic organizations
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metadata.value: Alexander Kukulevsky’s reform project of the American orthodox exarchate
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metadata.value: Article
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