Council for the Affairs of Religious Cults
The Council for the Affairs of Religious Cults (
Catholicism
.
The membership consisted of members from each Soviet territory and was headed by a chairman and was divided into divisions regarding particular denominations, for example
Roman Catholicism, and Islam.[3] The council was combined with the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church in May 1965 to form the Council for Religious Affairs.[4]
Heads
- Konstantin Zaitsev (19 May-16 June 1944)
- Ivan Vasilyevich Polyansky (1944-1956)
- Aleksei Aleksandrovich Puzin (1957-1965)
Notes
References
- Ro'i, Yaacov (2000), Islam in the Soviet Union. From the Second World War to Gorbachev, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-11954-2
- Altnurme, Riho (2002), ""Religious Cults." Particularly Lutheranism, in the Soviet Union in 1944-1949", Trames, 6 (1): 1–2, S2CID 150459733
See also
- Society of the Godless
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