Metadata: Lutsk and Zhitomir Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Consistory; Zhitomir, Volhynia Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Zhitomir Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Житомирської області
- Postal address:
- 2/20 Ohrimova Hora Str.. Zhytomyr, 10003, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0412) 42-48-00
- Web address:
- http://archive.zt.gov.ua/
- Email:
- archive_zt@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 178
- Title:
- Lutsk and Zhitomir Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Consistory; Zhitomir, Volhynia Province
- Title (official language):
- Луцко-Житомирская римско-католическая духовная консистория, г. Житомир Волынской губ.; Луцько-Житомирська римо-католицька духовна консисторія, м. Житомир Волинської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lutsk and Zhitomir Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Consistory
- Date(s):
- 1790/1918
- Language:
- Russian
- Latin
- Polish
- Extent:
- 20,293 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Among documents housed in the fonds (op. 1, 2, 4, 6-7, 9, 13-17, 19-21, 23, 28, 30, 32, 34-35, 52-54) are files on Jews’ rental of shops and land belonging to churches and monasteries; on permitting (and forbidding) Jews to build houses near churches, and on granting authority to priests and procurators of cathedral collegia to evict Jews from church buildings; on recovering debts from Jewish communities on behalf of monasteries; and on bidding arranged by the Volhynia Provincial Administration for the farming out of the general korobka (for eleven cities and 110 towns of the Volhynia province) for the four-year period of 1890-94, as well as a schedule of income and disbursements therefrom, and their appropriation (1891).
The largest group of documents consists of files on Jews wishing to be baptised according to the Catholic and Orthodox rites. There is also correspondence on persons of other confessions (including Judaism) who had converted to Catholicism; consistory edicts on reporting on the marriages of persons of different confessions and on procedures for carrying out divorce cases between them (1887); instructions on the strict observance of the law in Roman Catholic priests’ baptism of Jews, including on registering medical assessments of the state of their health (1912); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in 1798, this was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Department of Foreign Confessions, and immediately subordinate to the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Collegium. The consistory was a judicial-administrative body, its functions including appointing, dismissing, and transferring officials of churches; reviewing disputes between clergymen and parishioners; handling divorce cases; setting Church punishments; issuing permits to build and repair churches and monasteries; approving budgets; etc. The consistory was located in Lutsk until 1841, when it was transferred to Zhitomir. It was liquidated by Soviet power in 1920.
- Access points: locations:
- Lutsk
- Ukraine
- Volhynia province
- Zhitomir
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes fifty-four inventories systematised largely according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary