The collection of articles is devoted to the problems of the history of religious, primarily Christian, church education in Russia and Europe at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. This is a turning point for the history of the continent and Christian civilization, when absolutist monarchies, and then revolutionary governments armed with the ideas of the Enlightenment, invaded the very core of religious education. However, it itself, rethinking its principles, continued to serve the Church and its flock