Pastoral-social service of the Metropolitan Gabriel Banulescu-Bodoni

Despite the relatively large number of publications devoted to the life and activity of the Metropolitan Gabriel Banulescu-Bodoni, it should be noted that not all aspects of his activity were examined. In this article, the author attempted to show another side of the multifaceted activity of the Metropolitan Gabriel Banulescu-Bodoni, namely that witch is related with his pastoral-social service. For an objective study of this problem, author has analyzed a set of archival documents that allowed to show the efforts of Metropolitan Gabriel in arrangement of the Kiev shelter for widows and orphans of the clerics; attempts to establish a new system for the maintenance of the clergy of the Kiev Diocese; introduction of a special regime for lawsuits over clergy of the Moldo-Wallachian exarchate; reducing the tax burden for clergy, arrangement of the new temples and help Balkan fellow believers etc. All of this will enrich the knowledge of such an important personality who left a deep imprint in the history of the Romanian, Ukrainian and Russian peoples.