Аннотация:his article examines the features of the relationship between the state and the Orthodox Church in the capital and overseas possessions of the Most Serene Republic in the late 16th - 17th centuries. The review of the history of State-Church relations with the Orthodox begins with the Greek community of the capital, the history of which is most documented. The very nature of the contacts of the Greeks of the city of Venice with the spiritual and secular authorities is more complete than on the periphery, obeying a certain cause-and-effect logic, from which all sides of the dialogue proceeded. On the contrary, the religious policy of Venice in the overseas colonies was varied and heterogeneous in different epochs and territories. These connections, due to a variety of factors and circumstances, seemed to be subordinated to the logic of momentary interests, for which both sides either made mutual concessions, or explicitly or implicitly dictated their terms to each other...