Trakų sufraganato ir jo valdų istorijos bruožai XIX a.

ENThe position of the suffragan of Trakai was established by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church of Lithuania and approved by the Apostolic See in the 1770s. The transfer of this position to Vilnius University in 1803 inspired changes to the administration of land holdings intended for the subsistence of the suffragan. The exceptional feature of the administration of the holdings of the Trakai suffraganate during its university period was a search for the most adequate form of their management. The conducted analysis confirms the assumption that the changes in the administration of the holdings of the Trakai suffraganate were brought about by its transfer to an academic institution. The diversity of rent forms and their short-term nature (the rent by eternal quit-rent was suspended by the consequences of political events) show that the academic institution was not successful in adequate administration of the holdings of the Trakai suffraganate. The university did not take the advantage of the possibility to abolish corvée labour in the holding of Musė. The plans of the university to convert the folwark of Musė into a teaching farm for the students of agricultural disciplines were not implemented either. The case of the transfer of the Trakai suffraganate of the Vilnius diocese to Vilnius University by a decision of the authorities of the Russian Empire is a reflection of imperial policies aimed at the Catholic Church. When the Vilnius University was closed in 1832, the holding of Musė was temporarily let until the appointment of a new suffragan. The right to use the revenue from rent was delegated to Vilnius Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy established in 1833. In 1840, the Apostolic See appointed Jonas Civinskis as suffragan of Trakai, but he missed the opportunity to make use of the revenue from the Musė holding.Like other holdings owned by the clergy of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, the holding of Musė was secularized in 1842. After Civinskis’s death in 1846, a new suffragan was not appointed. However, neither the position of the suffragan of Trakai nor the suffraganate were abolished. As an administrative structure of the Vilnius diocese, the suffraganate of Trakai survived into the nineteenth century, but from the mid-1840s it was just a formal unit of the administrative division of the diocese. In 1813, the rector of Vilnius University and the diocese administrator reached an agreement which legitimated the plans to link the position of the Trakai suffragan with that of the parish priest of Hrodna; in 1829, the draft of the agreement was updated and supplemented with a decision to change the name of the suffraganate into that of Hrodna. Although not implemented, the idea of the name change is an obvious proof that the suffraganate of Trakai was a unit of administrative division of the diocese, which did not have defined territorial boundaries. The transfer of the Trakai suffraganate of the Vilnius diocese to Vilnius University and the vacancy of the suffragan from the 1840s were a reflection and a consequence of the imperial policy with regard to the Catholic Church. [From the publication]