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The article is devoted to the historical and legal analysis of church-state relations during the activities of the Provisional Government in Russia, which were characterized by amplitude turbulence: first, the self-proclaimed body of the state declared in regulations a course towards secularism, granting the Church the rights to independent governance, and a little later officials declared their right influence decision-making on issues in the religious sphere. This duality was explained by the adherence of the members of the Provisional Government to the rhetoric of autocracy, which considered the Church to be part of the state administration apparatus. All this laid the foundation for further antagonism in the dialogue between Church and state.