Abstract

The article discusses the national component in the missionary activity of the Russian orthodox church during the first occupation of Galicia in the 1914­1915. The national question in the Russian Empire closely associated with the religious situation, and confessional aspect occupied an important place as the domestic policy and foreign policy concepts, attitudes towards minorities. Especially brightly this is manifested in the First World War. The author should aim to delineate the main activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in Galicia, as part of the occupation apparatus during the first capture edge in the years 1914­1915 The Russian Orthodox Church activity in Galicia has been an integral part of the state. Geostrategic importance of the region was not too substantial and did not require such efforts to obtain and maintenance it. The main reasons aspirations of the Russian Empire in Western Ukraine were lying precisely in the national plane. And the results of anti­Ukrainian activities members of the Russian orthodox church in Galicia appeared opposite expected. The high level of religious society was one of the characteristic characteristics of the Russian Empire, suggesting the importance of church­state relations and require special attention to it. Government management system did not allow the possibility of atheistic beliefs, and individual rights are inseparable from human denomination. Orthodox clergy were completely integrated into the autocratic system of government, along with religious and performing certain functions of state officials. This fixation of civil status acts and participation in administrative activities provincial boards, and marked by a well known scientist and religious studies Boris Kandidovym participate in law enforcement activities. Since the beginning of the twentieth century. practical task priests all confessions expanded functions stabilization of the population within the limits the parish and maintaining trust in government. In the last decades of the tsarist political role of the church has increased. Trend have become stronger its closure with conservative political forces. Anti­Ukrainian activities The Russian orthodox church failed. Imposed by Tsarist administration structure of the Russian Orthodox Church in Galicia soon cease to exist ­ the clergy escaped, and those who switched to Orthodoxy who failed to withdraw from the Russian army repressed the Austrian authorities. Ukrainian movement has not only failed to destroy, he was strong. Seriously was discredited and the entire Russophile movement, which soon ceased to exist.