Yevgeny Golubinsky

Yevgeny Yevsigneyevich Golubinsky (Russian: Евгений Евсигнеевич Голубинский; 28 February 1834 – 7 January 1912) was one of three major church historians of the Russian Empire, along with Macarius Bulgakov and Filaret Gumilevsky.

He was educated in the church schools of Soligalich and Kostroma before completing his studies at the Moscow Theological Academy.

Golubinsky's most highly regarded work examines the canonization practices of the Russian Orthodox Church.

At the theological academy, Golubinsky repeatedly ran afoul of his conservative minded colleagues such as Konstantin Pobedonostsev, because he employed the innovative method of Positivism: "the objective study of a phenomenon to find a positive solution based on logic as opposed to superstition or some other nonrational approach".

[3] As a result of these conflicts, some of his works have never been published, although he was elected into the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1902.