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The Establishment of Soviet Control over the Church of St. Louis in Moscow in 1947—1950 (According to the Documents of the the Council for Religious Cults Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union)
 
PIIS207987840016674-0-1
DOI10.18254/S207987840016674-0
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Ekaterina Zhdanova 
Affiliation: Lomonosov Moscow State University
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameISTORIYA
Edition
Abstract

The Council for Religious Cults Affairs, created in 1944, was in charge of control over the activities of all non-Orthodox religious organizations. At the same time, the transformation of the religious course of the Soviet regime in the 1940s, the increase in the number of Catholics at the expense of the newly annexed territories, the conditions of the Cold War, and a negative attitude towards the Vatican were the reasons for the Council's special attention to Catholicism. Church of St. Louis on Lubyanka remained the only active Catholic church in Moscow, and, surprisingly, the authorities could not fully control it, since many parishioners were foreigners, and the rectors of the temple were French and American priests who enjoyed the patronage of the French embassy and asked for help to the American embassy. In this regard, the Council for Religious Cults Affairs decided to sever the existing ties between the temple and the embassies and establish control over its life. Based on documents deposited in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the article reconstructs in detail the process of determining the rights of the Soviet state to the building of a church, forming the “twenty” from among Soviet citizens and appointing a priest — a citizen of the USSR.

KeywordsCouncil for Religious Cults Affairs, сatholicism, St. Louis, religion in the USSR, Fr. Leopold Braun, Fr. Georges Antonio Laberge, Fr. Jean-de-Matha Thomas
Received04.07.2021
Publication date15.09.2021
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