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The article is devoted to the basic structure of the Chernihiv Diocese in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Church parishes performed the key function of diocesan administration and church service at the local level. The article examines the issues of forms and methods of formation of the church clergy. Issues of powers of the church clergy are being considered. It depended on church reforms carried out during the 19th century. Peculiarities of its composition and activity are studied. The government and the Holy Synod followed the path of optimizing church communion. They reduced the number of parishes and condensed the church clergy. All this was done in order to save state funds. The maintenance of the church clergy depended almost entirely on the parishioners. According to the author's observations, the Ukrainian parish at the turn of the 18th–19th centuries. began to lose her previously inherent ability to self-organize. The spread of serfdom, the draining of economic and human resources by the state, and the state's guardianship of the Orthodox Church led to some indifference of a significant part of the parishioners to the internal church and parish life (not to the sacred). Poverty, destitution, and hopelessness were caused by two things: the tendency toward social isolation and the loss of church estates and lands as a result of expropriation by the government of the Russian Empire. Both the clergy and the imperial authorities were guilty of the first reason. The clergy wanted it, the state encouraged it. The second reason lies entirely with the responsibility of the empire. The absolute majority of candidates for the priesthood consisted of young people, graduates of seminaries, or those who did not graduate from seminary. The systematic practice of “approving” or simply agreeing with the community/parish of the candidacy of the priest and other members of the parish continued until the parish reform of the 1840s. Then for some time the believers tried to preserve this practice. Single complaints against priests or appeals against personnel appointments in parishes continued to occur, but from the second half of the 19th century. the bishop independently decided in the diocese who to appoint to which place of communion, he could go to the meeting at the request of the community, but the request was not a priority. &nbsp

The article is sanctified to the structure of management of the Chernihiv diocese in ХІХ – at the beginning ХХ of century the Spiritual rules and decanat (decanat advices), as collective judicial-administrative organs, performed the key duty of diocese management at district and local level. They executed the enormous amount of various functions and were a relating link between the diocese authority and parishes. Spiritual rules prevailed in the first half of ХІХ to the century, that held out largely due to a local clergy. By the middle of the XIX century. all the spiritual reigns of the Chernihiv eparchy ceased to exist because, generated by the Cossack epoch of Ukrainian church history, they proved to be superfluous in the new imperial realities. But, a key role more subzero level decanat advices that was formed by elections in each to decanat neighbourhood began to play the. The amount of districts in the Chernihiv diocese changed from time to time. At the beginning ХХ of century came into question of reformation of church management, in particular, and decanat of advices. Deaneries and directly charitable councils (a charitable and two assistants), created by the election of clergy and clergymen of the charitable district, played an important role in the structure of the diocesan administration. They represented the local ecclesiastical authorities, administered and initially prosecuted parish stories, and performed various organizational duties. At the beginning of the twentieth century, during the period of revolutionary events, preparations for the Local Church Council, the democratization of church life was planned. In this context, the issue of reforming church administration, in particular, charitable councils, was discussed. It was envisaged to extend their plenary powers. &nbsp

The article is sanctified to the structure of management of the Chernihiv diocese in ������ ��� at the beginning ���� of century the Spiritual rules and decanat (decanat advices), as collective judicial-administrative organs, performed the key duty of diocese management at district and local level. They executed the enormous amount of various functions and were a relating link between the diocese authority and parishes. Spiritual rules prevailed in the first half of ������ to the century, that held out largely due to a local clergy. By the middle of the XIX century. all the spiritual reigns of the Chernihiv eparchy ceased to exist because, generated by the Cossack epoch of Ukrainian church history, they proved to be superfluous in the new imperial realities. But, a key role more subzero level decanat advices that was formed by elections in each to decanat neighbourhood began to play the. The amount of districts in the Chernihiv diocese changed from time to time. At the beginning ���� of century came into question of reformation of church management, in particular, and decanat of advices. Deaneries and directly charitable councils (a charitable and two assistants), created by the election of clergy and clergymen of the charitable district, played an important role in the structure of the diocesan administration. They represented the local ecclesiastical authorities, administered and initially prosecuted parish stories, and performed various organizational duties. At the beginning of the twentieth century, during the period of revolutionary events, preparations for the Local Church Council, the democratization of church life was planned. In this context, the issue of reforming church administration, in particular, charitable councils, was discussed. It was envisaged to extend their plenary powers.