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    Joseph Semashko (Ukrainian: Йосиф Семашко; Polish: Józef Siemaszko; Russian: Иосиф Семашко; 25 December 1798 – 23 November 1868) was an Eastern Catholic...
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    with the Russian Orthodox Church starting from to-be Metropolitan Joseph (Semashko), a Russophile Greek Catholic protopresbyter, who presented a document...
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    Patriarchate initiated the canonization of the former Metropolitan of Vilnius Joseph Semashko who was the primary organizer of the Synod of Polotsk in 1839 during...
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    Tsar Nicholas also used a former Byzantine Catholic priest named Joseph Semashko as his agent to force Orthodoxy upon the Eastern Rite Catholics of...
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    1839 with the incorporation of the Uniate parishes under Metropolitan Joseph Semashko into the Russian church at the Synod of Polotsk. Among the more notable...
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  • Synod of Polotsk reverted to Eastern Orthodoxy under the leadership of Joseph Semashko in 1839. Meanwhile, since the mid-1830s, ethnographic works about Belarus...
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  • forced conversion of the Archeparchy of Polotsk-Vitebsk by Bishop Joseph Semashko between 1837 and 1839 and continuing with the 1874–1875 Conversion...
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  • burned everywhere; most of the books were burned on the orders of Joseph Semashko. Russification was also reflected in architecture - the destruction...
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    influence in Belarusian society, the three bishops of the Church (led by Joseph Semashko), along with 21 priests, convoked in February 1839 a synod that was...
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    Church, the mass destruction of Belarusian religious literature began. Joseph Semashko was a personal witness of the burning of 1,295 books found in Belarusian...
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    tendencies began to surface, and came in face of the Uniate Bishop Joseph Semashko. Believing that the Uniate Church's role as an interim bridge between...
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    was blessed by the Orthodox Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, Joseph Semashko. Metropolitan Philaret Drozdov of Moscow was also particularly involved...
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    became the burial site for Orthodox Bishops of Vilnius, including Joseph Semashko, buried there in 1868. During this period, the monastery housed 9 monks...
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    architectural style. The consistory of the Lithuanian diocese, led by Bishop Joseph Semashko, advocated for gradual changes and agreed to allow some secondary Latin...
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    conversion to Orthodoxy, Bishop Markell Popel, along with Metropolitan Joseph Semashko, is frequently mentioned as one of the greatest enemies of the Uniates...
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    1830s, the consistory of the Uniate Vilnius Metropolis, led by Bishop Joseph Semashko, began efforts to change this situation, preparing for the eventual...
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    allocate emergency funds prior to any crisis. Beveridge Report Bismarck Model Semashko model The Healing of America History of the welfare state in the United...
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    Belarusian Greek Catholic Church since its criminalization by Bishop Joseph Semashko and the Russian imperial authorities in the 1830s. Bishop Sipovich...
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  • others opposed such moves. In the early 1920s, Commissar of Health Nikolai Semashko for example was sympathetic to homosexual emancipation "as part of the...
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  • Pushkin Valerian Safonovich (died 1867), governor of Oryol 1854-1861 Joseph Semashko (died 1868), archbishop Sofya Shcherbatova (died 1885), philanthropist...
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    was conceived by the People's Commissariat for Health in 1918. Under the Semashko model, health care was to be controlled by the state and would be provided...
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    Semashko convoked a Uniate Church council to consider the issue. The synod took place in February 1839. With the help of the authorities, Semashko collected...
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    sent delegates from the Commissariat of Health led by Commissar of Health Semashko to the German Institute for Sexual Research as well as to some international...
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    Exarchate in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate). Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko, the first People's Commissar for Health of Soviet Russia, married Nadezhda...
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    Itzkowitz) was born in a Jewish village between Nemyriv and Tulchyn. Yosyf Semashko, Uniate and Orthodox hierarch Liubov Hakkebush, stage actress, teacher...
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    the Supreme Council of Physical Culture when he was replaced by Nikolai Semashko in 1923, and by 1926 he had lost effective control of Sportintern to the...
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    and 1923, while others opposed such moves. Commissar of Health Nikolai Semashko, in the early 1920s, for example, was sympathetic to homosexual emancipation...
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    Munn & Company. 7 June 1884. p. 354. Stochik, A. A (2020). "Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, The first large-scale productions...
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    convert to Latin Catholicism, while the latter group, led by Bishop Iosif Semashko (1798–1868) and firmly rejected by the ruling Greek-Catholic synod remained...
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    gulags or executed in the late 1930s, as a result of the Great Purge by Joseph Stalin. Initially, the term "Old Bolshevik" referred to Bolsheviks who joined...
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