Dedications of the holy tables of the parish churches of the Kola deanery in the first half of the XIX century

Abstract

The article deals with the previously unexplored issue of the consecration of the holy tables of the parish churches of the Kola deanery in the first half of the XIX century. The research is based on the data of the statements compiled for the Arkhangelsk Ecclesiastical Consistory in 1844 and preserved in the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia. For the first time, the number of main and additional holy tables in the churches of the deanery district is determined and the features of the existing spectrum of church names are revealed. It turns out that the system of patronal dedications of the existing temples was formed at the end of the XIV–XVII centuries under the influence of the monastic culture of the region and was characterized by stability. In the deanery there were developed traditions of veneration of popular saints of the Ancient Church.