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'''Constantine Petrovich Pobedonostsev''' (Russian: Константин Петрович Победоносцев) was a Russian jurist, statesman, adviser to three Tsars and [[Ober-Procurator]] of the [[Apostolic Governing Synod|Holy Synod]] for twenty seven years, the highest position of supervision of the [[Church of Russia]] by the state. <ref name="TGOTSU">Thompson, Ronald. ''The Government of the Soviet Union, 2nd edition''. D. Van Nostrand, 1949</ref> He was usually regarded as a prime representative of reactionary views in the late nineteenth century<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=W8ETvpyQ26wC&pg=PA23&dq=pobedonostsev+reactionary#PPA23,M1</ref>.

His reactionary conservatism carried over in his actions as the Ober-procurator of the Church. Peter I’s reforms of the governance of the Church had already diminished the power of the hierarchs. These reforms abolished the position of [[Patriarch ]] and placed the administration of the Russian Church into an [[Apostolic Governing Synod ]] with a layman as overseer, the Ober-procurator. The influence of the hierarchy had been further reduced under the Ober-procurator N. A. Protasov during his term from 1836 to 1855 and reached a culmination under Pobedonostsev as the interests of the Church were subordinated to that of the State.