ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS FUND OF BUKOVYNA: MOTIVES OF CREATION AND CHURCH-ADMINISTRATIVE PRINCIPLES OF ACTIVITY

In the article it is examined controversial issues that appeared in the process of church property dividing between the newly installed Austrian authorities and clergy. Such way of Orthodox Church Reformation received a negative evaluation of the clerical hierarchy, resulting in the secularizational acts and affiliations of monastery property were changed. The author researches the process of implementation of the church legislation that legitimized sequestration and substantiated the creation of Orthodox religious fund and approached its work to the perfection. In the investigation it was reviewed the peculiarities of establishment and functioning of the Fund, its role and influence on the overall development of the region.