Lux Occidentale: The Eastern Mission of the Pontifical Commission for Russia, Origins to 1933
[Thesis]
Michael A. Guzik
Pease, Neal
The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
2017
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Committee members: Chu, Winson; Eichner, Carolyn; Evans, Christine; Wrobel, Piotr
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-23278-3
Ph.D.
History
The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
2017
Although it was first a sub-commission within the Congregation for the Eastern Churches (CEO), the Pontifical Commission for Russia (PCpR) emerged as an independent commission under the presidency of the noted Vatican Russian expert, Michel d'Herbigny, S.J. in 1925, and remained so until 1933 when it was re-integrated into CEO. The PCpR was given authority over the spiritual and material mission to Soviet Russia, including refugees who had fled the Bolshevik Revolution. While most studies concerning the Catholic Church and Russia are religious or political histories which focus, respectively, on martyrdom or the contest between the so-called free world and Communism, this dissertation is instead a social history which employs religious anthropological categories.
Religious history; European history; Russian history
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Catholic church;Orthodoxy;Russia