НАРИС ІЗ ІСТОРІЇ ОХТИРСЬКОГО ДУХОВНОГО УЧИЛИЩА (1819 – 1888 рр.)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of the Okhtyrka Theological School, the first institution of spiritual education on the territory of the current Sumy Oblast. The relevance of the article is determined by the objectively insufficient research of the history of the Okhtyrka Theological School, its uniqueness as an educational institution, as well as its spiritual and intellectual influence on the further history of Okhtyrka and Okhtyrka Region (within the newest stage of history - Sumy Region). Therefore, the object of the study is the Okhtyrka Theological School and the integral system of its functioning as a religious educational institution. The subject of the research will be a complex of historical information that reflects the activities of the Okhtyrka Theological School in all manifestations of its specialized activity. The aim of the research is to reveal the substance of the formation and development of Okhtyrka Theological School throughout its entire existence. Scientific novelty. The article reflects a multi-aspect complex analysis of archival sources, which made it possible to achieve the following research results: identify the factors that led to the opening of the Okhtyrka Theological School; characterize the ecclesiastical and administrative conditions for the opening and operation of the Okhtyr Theological School; introduce information about the state of the educational process, teaching methods, characteristics of educational work, the system of disciplinary sanctions and punishments, lists of management staff and teachers into scientific circulation for the first time; characterize the composition of the school's students by social and national characteristics; analyze the state of material and household support, conditions of study and accommodation of students; research and present the version of the reasons for the termination of activity of Okhtyrka Theological School and its transfer to Sumy for the first time. Conclusions. The analysis of the available sources, as well as the historical and contextual extrapolation of individual data, allowed us to reproduce the historical past of the Okhtyrka Theological School within the administrative-territorial structure, church-canonical subordination, normative definition of functioning, peculiarities of the educational process, educational-methodical and personnel support, and other aspects.