Тhe roman catholic church on the territory of Naddniprianska Ukraine at the end of 40-s of the 19th–the beginning of the 20th century: source-based aspect of the problem

Abstract

An attempt of analysis of written sources of the history of the Roman Catholic Church on the territory of Ukraine at the end of 40-s of the 19th –the beginning of the 20th century was per-formed in the article. Such types of sources as act documents were selected due to the type-specificity principle. Concordat of 1847 as an international agreement between Vatican and the Russian Empire has become a crucial object of analysis. The legislative acts included into “The full collection of laws of the Russian Empire” are considered among the documents of the au-thorities engaged in the study that are crucial legislative acts the power of which was extended on all administrative and territorial units. The documents of religious organizations are repre-sented in the study by the bull of “Diocesan separation” written by the Pope of Rome Pius IX. Business documentation, statistical materials, among of which is “The first general census of inhabitants of the Russian Empire in 1897”, are considered in the study. Moreover, “Diocesan Gazette” – an official periodical of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Empire is pre-sented in the study. Compendiums dated of the second half of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century are a particular type of written sources, namely they are represented by “Com-memorative books”, for example, an issue: “The Roman Catholic hierarchy in the Russian Em-pire and the Kingdom of Poland and a list to secular and monastic clergy in Lutsk-Zhytomyr di-ocese and Podillia province” that contained essential statistical information as well as records regarding a hierarchical structure of the diocesan clergy of the Roman Catholic Church on the territory of Naddniprianska Ukraine in defined period.