Tsar Alexander I, under pressure from the…

January 1816 CE

Tsar Alexander I, under pressure from the Russian Orthodox Church, signs an order during December 25 to January 16, 1816, expelling the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Jesuits had been supported by Empress Catherine the Great, a patron of learning, who welcomed exiled Jesuits to Russia in 1773 after their expulsion from other parts of Europe.

The order of dissolution has been delayed in the Russian Empire until long after her death, when the Society had been reinstated in other places.

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St Petersburg Sankt-Peterburg Russia View →

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Alexander I of Russia View →

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Christians, Eastern Orthodox View → Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus View → Russian Empire View →

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Jesuits, Papal Suppression of the View →

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