Адміністрацыйныя рэарганізацыі Мінскай рымска-каталіцкай дыяцэзіі ў канцы XVIII – пачатку ХХ ст.
Administrative and territorial reorganisations of the Minsk Roman Catholic Diocese between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the attitude of the clergy of Minsk’s Roman Catholic Diocese and the population to the administrative-territorial reorganisations that took place during the entry of these territories into the Russian Empire. The author has identified four periods of the changes in the subordination of the Minsk region. Compared with the reorganisation of diocesan units of other Christian denominations, changes in the administrative-territorial obedience of the Minsk Roman Catholic diocese depended not only on the decisions of state authorities but also had to agree with the Pope. Another feature was the transfer of the diocese to the administration of others without its territorial fragmentation. This positively affected the possibility of resuming the activities of the Roman Catholic diocese of Minsk.

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