Stetsyk Y. The monkhood of the Saint Protectione province of OSBM (1739–1783 years): prosopographic research.

The research presents the institutional development of the Saint Protectione province of OSBM in the main periods of its activity: historical background (the end of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), the founding (1739), integration processes (1740–1743), reformation of the monasteries (1744–1772), reorganization of the administrative-territorial system and the jurisdiction of the Basilian monkhood (1772–1783). It was established that the formation of a new monastic administrative-territorial unit – the Saint Protectione province, initiated the process of updating the spiritual formation, which was reflected in the way of life of the monks, the adoption of new Constitutions and spiritual practices, and monastic reference. The introduction of such a system of governance has given a stimulus to the elevation of the educational level of monkhood, the development of the Basilian school, the strengthening of discipline in the most remote monasteries, which laid the foundations for the spiritual formation of a new, post uniate, reformed, highly educated generation of Basilian monks.