Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian: Издательский совет Русской православной церкви) is one of the departments of the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate, in its present form was created in 1994. The task of the Council is to coordinate the activities of the Orthodox publishing organizations, providing methodological, legal, organizational, and other assistance as the ecclesiastical and secular publishers. After a rather lengthy discussion, the draft regulations on the Publishing Council were developed, reviewed and adopted at the Synod meeting on March 13, 1913. The draft regulations on the Publishing Council at the Holy Synod were submitted to Emperor Nicholas II for consideration on March 21, 1913 in Tsarskoye Selo. Nicholas II approved the submitted document. The Council consisted of the chairman, who was at the same time a member of the Most Holy Synod, and four permanent members both clerical and lay rank. The Chairman was given the right, as necessary, to invite persons who were known for their works in the literary and publishing business to the Council. The Publishing Council, created a year before the outbreak of the First World War, could not expand its activities to the scale and scope that the initiators of its creation wanted. If the situation had been more prosperous, the Publishing Council would have become the largest church publishing house, not only checking and publishing author's manuscripts, but also ordering the necessary textbooks, manuals, brochures, leaflets for public reading. In addition, it would eventually most likely replace the central spiritual censorship committees in St. Petersburg and Moscow. In the new situation of 1917 the activities of the Publishing Council were ceased. More information...
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