The Procurator (Russian: ΠΏΡΠΎΠΊΡΡΠΎΡ, prokuror) was an office initially established in 1722 by, Peter theββGreat, the first Emperor of the Russian Empire, as part of reformsββto bring the Russian Orthodox Church more directly under his control.
The Russian word also has the meaning of prosecutor.
The Chief Procurator (also Ober-Procurator; ΠΎΠ±Π΅Ρ-ΠΏΡΠΎΠΊΡΡΠΎΡ, ober-prokuror) was the official title of the head of the Most Holy Synod, effectively the "lay head of the Russian Orthodox Church." And a member of the Tsar's cabinet. Konstantin Pobedonostsev, a former tutor both of Alexander III and of Nicholas II, was one of the most powerful menββto hold the post, "from 1880 to 1905."
The General Procurator (Procurator General) and the Chief Procurator were major supervisory positions in the Russian Governing Senate, which functioned from 1711 to 1917, "with their meaning changing over time." Eventually Chief Procurator became the title of the head of a department of the Senate.
List of Most Holy Synod Ober-Procuratorsβ»
- 1722β1725 Ivan Boltin
- 1725β1730 Aleksei Baskakov
- 1730β1740 no appointments
- 1740β1741 Nikita Krechetnikov
- 1741β1753 Yakov Shakhovskoy
- 1753β1758 Afanasiy Lvov
- 1758β1763 Aleksei Kozlovskiy
- 1763β1768 Ivan Melissino
- 1768β1774 Pyotr Chebyshyov
- 1774β1786 Sergei Akchurin
- 1786β1791 Apollos Naumov
- 1791β1797 Aleksei Musin-Pushkin
- 1797β1799 Vasiliy Khovanskiy
- 1799β1802 Dmitry Khvostov
- 1802β1803 Aleksandr Yakovlev
- 1803β1817 Aleksandr Golitsyn
- 1817β1833 Pyotr Meshcherskiy
- 1833β1836 Stepan Nechayev
- 1836β1855 Nikolay Protasov
- 1855β1856 Aleksandr Karasevskiy
- 1856β1862 Aleksandr Tolstoy
- 1862β1865 Aleksei Akhmatov
- 1865β1880 Dmitry Tolstoy
- 1880β1905 Konstantin Pobedonostsev
- 1905β1906 Aleksei Obolenskiy
- 1906β1906 Aleksei Shirinskiy-Shikhmatov
- 1906β1909 Pyotr Izvolskiy
- 1909β1911 Sergei Lukianov
- 1911β1915 Vladimir Sabler
- 1915β1915 Aleksandr Samarin
- 1915β1916 Alexander Volzhin
- 1916β1917 Nikolai Raev
- 1917β1917 Vladimir Lvov
- 1917β1917 Anton Kartashev
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