History of Church sermon the synodal period investigated enough. The proposed article on the basis of an analysis of the most famous sermons Church publicists attempted to trace the evolution of sermon XVIII - first half XIX century. The most prominent representative of sermon scholastic traditions on Russian soil was Ryazan Metropolitan Stephan (Jaworski) (1658-1722). His sermons abounded sophisticated comparisons and stretched symbolism. During the same period, in a sermon there is a departure from the scholastic tradition, which began with the Archbishop Theophan (Prokopovich) (1681-1736) in the main ideologue of Peter’s Church reforms. Compared to its predecessors the sermons sermon looked simple and nenadumannoj. The composition was based no longer on certain fixed headings, and thus thought the preacher. As a result of their activities of Metropolitan Platon (Levshin) (1737-1812) of particular importance acquired the task of adapting to modern sermons spiritual needs of his flock and abilities of its pe