KYIV EPARCHIAL GAZETTE
Published by the Kyiv Spiritual Consistory from March 1, 1861
Skvortsov (Professor of Theology at the Kyiv Theological Academy and St. Vladimir Imperial Lebedintsev (Cathedral Priest, Historian, Archaeologist, and Church Scholar)
KYIV
Printed at the University Press
1861
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 1 (March 1, 1861):
Official Section (The Gazette Proper):
By the Highest command, a decree from the Most Holy Governing Synod of October 15, 1860, informed the bishops about the opening of a universal subscription for the collection of offerings for the construction and maintenance in the city of Mozdok of a stone church in honor of the miraculous icon of the Iveron Mother of God.
In the relation of the Stavropol civil governor to the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Kyiv dated December 23, 1860, outlining the same Highest command, a historical note about the said miraculous icon is attached, which is placed below in this issue.
By the Highest command, under the decree of the Most Holy Governing Synod of December 31, 1860, printed copies of the appeal for donations in favor of the Society for the Restoration of the Orthodox Faith in the Caucasus were forwarded to the diocesan lords.
At the same time, it is prescribed that parish priests have an indispensable duty to explain the content of this proclamation to their parishioners orally, on convenient pastoral occasions, without at all reading it during church services.
By a decree of December 31, 1860, the Most Holy Synod determined, in accordance with the proposal of the Kyiv diocesan authorities, the priest of the village of Novaya Greblya, Luka Trembovelsky, to be elevated to the rank of archpriest for the construction in that village, at his own expense, of a stone church instead of a dilapidated wooden one.
By the determination of the Most Holy Synod of December 14, 1860, the rector of the Kyiv-Podolsk theological schools, Abbot Modest, was appointed inspector and professor at the Minsk Theological Seminary; in his place at the Kyiv-Podolsk School, the caretaker of the Kyiv-Sophia School, Hieromonk Narkiss, was moved; The inspector of these schools, court councilor Stefan Turchinsky, was appointed as the caretaker of the Kyiv-Sophia School.
By a decree of the Most Holy Synod of January 18, 1861, the rector of the Boguslav Nikolaev Monastery, Hieromonk Macarius, was appointed superintendent of the Boguslav theological district and parish schools.