PARLIAMENTARY WORK OF THE 1919–1922 LEGISLATIVE SEJM ON THE VINDICATION OF THE CHURCH ESTATES CONFISCATED BY TSARISM
Journal Title: Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego - Year 2008, Vol 11, Issue 11
Abstract
After the January Uprising, Polish society, especially the Polish Church and the clergy, fell victim to repression by the government of tsarist Russia. Clergymen in large numbers were sentenced to death or deported to Siberia. The Polish Church – the mainstay of Polish identity, was attacked in the heaviest way. In 1865 the government confiscated Church estates and stopped paying government salaries to clergymen. Moreover, in 1867 all the bishops were subordinated to the Board of Clergy in Petersburg. The limitation of the Catholic Church’s rights meant total dependence of this institution on the tsarist government. The Legislative Sejm debating between 1919 and 1922 made an attempt to vindicate the Church estates confiscated by tsarism. While tackling this issue, the Sejm worked on the return of the monastery estate in Dubno to Barefoot Missionary Brethren. It also tried to regain the church in Głębokie for a Roman Catholic parish. In addition, there were attempts to grant Barefoot Carmelites in Lublin ownership of their monastery which had been confiscated by the tsarist government. Settling the above-mentioned matters was not an easy task. The aforementioned estates triggered a clash of interests between the Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the state, since the government did not give up its plans to incorporate the estates in question into the State Treasury. Nevertheless, the MPs of the Legislative Sejm did not manage to pass a bill which would completely solve the problem of the vindication of the Church estates confiscated by the tsarist government during the partitions.
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Adam Balicki
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