A similar situation had existed in the West, where the Roman Catholic Church tried to keep the Bible exclusively in Latin long after Latin had become a dead language.
लेकिन, १९वीं शताब्दी के मध्य भाग तक, लंबे अरसे से स्लावोनिक भाषा का प्रयोग बंद हो चुका था ।