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The purpose of the research-is to determine the main directions of the administrative authority of the protohegumens. The methodology of the research is based on the analytical and synthetic criticism of the documentation, which was made by the protohegumens at the Provincial office of Pochayiv Lavra and during the field meetings of the provincial consulate. The comparison of the copies of the encyclical letters, which were included into the entrance books documentation of the local monastic chanceries, has been made in order to establish the impartiality of the presented information on the condition of the original document absence. The scientific novelty of the work is the use in the scientific circulation of the entire non-applied corps of the monastic documentation: the visits protocols, the reform decrees, the disciplinary affairs of the monasticism, the encyclical letters of the protohegumen of Svyatopokrovska Province of the Order of Saint Basil the Great. Conclusions.

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The purpose of the research is to investigate the manifestations of deviant behavior of Basilian monasticism in early modern times by examining the disciplinary case of Pr. Yosafat Makarevych. The methodology of the research is based on the analytical and synthetic criticism of the protocols, which were compiled by the commission, who was delegated by Svyatopokrovska province Protohegumen in order to investigate Kremenetskyi Monastery hegumen's behavior. The monastery inhabitants' testimony were compared with the hegumen's explanations in order to establish the objectivity of the submitted information. The scientific novelty is that for the first time the hegumen's disciplinary case has been introduced into the scientific circulation. The Conclusions. The typical manifestations of the Basilian monasticism's deviant behavior of the early modern times have been established, they were the following: traveling to different province monasteries in order to find comfortable living conditions and to avoid performing duties; waste of monastic funds for their own fortune; violation of the ascetic rule of the cloister in the monastery cells; maintaining relationships

The article identifies the relevance of church biography for the study of spiritual culture of the region. The basic, statistical and descriptive sources that are involved in the reconstruction of biographical information about the parish clergy are examined. The importance of studying eparchial shematisms for revealing the history of parish churches, the