Lux Occidentale: The Eastern Mission of the Pontifical Commission for Russia, Origins to 1933
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Michael A. Guzik
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Pease, Neal
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The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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266
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Chu, Winson; Eichner, Carolyn; Evans, Christine; Wrobel, Piotr
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-23278-3
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
History
Body granting the degree
The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religious history; European history; Russian history
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Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Catholic church;Orthodoxy;Russia