Activitatea social-pastorală a Mitropolitului Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni
Pastoral-social service of the Metropolitan Gabriel Banulescu-Bodoni

Summary/Abstract: Despite the relatively large number of publications devoted to the life and activity of the Metropolitan Gabriel Banulescu-Bodoni, it should be noted that not all aspects of his activity were examined.In this article, the author attempted to show another side of the multifaceted activity of the Metropolitan Gabriel Banulescu-Bodoni, namely that witch is related with his pastoral-social service.For an objective study of this problem, author has analyzed a set of archival documents that allowed to show the efforts of Metropolitan Gabriel in arrangement of the Kiev shelter for widows and orphans of the clerics; attempts to establish a new system for the maintenance of the clergy of the Kiev Diocese; introduction of a special regime for lawsuits over clergy of the Moldo-Wallachian exarchate; reducing the tax burden for clergy, arrangement of the new temples and help Balkan fellow believers etc.All of this will enrich the knowledge of such an important personality who left a deep imprint in the history of the Romanian, Ukrainian and Russian peoples.

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