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The Church Reform of Peter the Great was a set of changes Tsar Peter I (ruled 1682–1725) introduced to the Russian Orthodox Church, especially to church government. Issued in the context of Peter's overall westernizing reform programme, it replaced the Patriarch of Moscow with the Holy Synod and made the church effectively a department of state.
Feofan Prokopovich – archbishop and statesman in the Russian Empire, elaborated and implemented Peter the Great's reform of the Russian Orthodox Church; Mitro Repo – Finnish Orthodox Christian priest, member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2014, elected as an independent candidate on the Social Democratic Party's ticket.
The history of religion in early Virginia begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony, in particular the commencing of Anglican services at Jamestown in 1607. In 1619, the Church of England was made the established church throughout the Colony of Virginia , becoming a dominant religious, cultural, and political force.
Peter I (Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), known as Peter the Great, [note 1] was Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725.
Jefferson was born at a settlement called Osbornes [a] along the James River [3] in what is now Chesterfield County, Virginia and was the son of Captain Thomas Jefferson (1679–1731), [4] a large property owner, and Mary Field (1680–1715), who was the daughter of Major Peter Field of New Kent County and granddaughter of Henry Soane (1622–1661) of the Virginia House of Burgesses. [3]
The Procurator (Russian: прокурор, tr. prokuror) was an office initially established in 1722 by Peter the Great, the first Emperor of the Russian Empire, as part of the ecclesiastical reforms to bring the Russian Orthodox Church more directly under his control.
Prokopovich elaborated upon and implemented Peter the Great's reform of the Russian Orthodox Church; [6] he served as the first vice-president of the Most Holy Synod from 1721, which replaced the office of the patriarch. [4] Prokopovich also wrote many religious verses and some of the most enduring sermons in the Russian language.
Others were the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, also authored by Jefferson and adopted by Virginia in 1786; and the French Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789. The metaphor "a wall of separation between Church and State" used by Jefferson in the above quoted letter became a part of the First Amendment ...