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Starting from the study of \textit{A. Mallios} [Note Mat. 12, 167-202 (1992; Zbl 0818.53028)] concerning vector sheaves, the author extends a series of notions and results from the geometry of differentiable manifolds and fibre bundles to the more general setting of principal sheaves locally isomorphic to Lie sheaves of groups. He defines and studies Lie sheaves of groups, principal sheaves, and connections on such sheaves. Then, he establishes the relation with connections on a principal bundle and proves that the notion of connections on principal sheaves incorporates connections on vector sheaves, on projective limits and connections in the sense of \textit{A. Aragnol} [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér., III. Sér. 75, 257-407 (1958; Zbl 0196.54202)]. Finally, the Atiyah class of a principal sheaf is defined, and it is proved that the vanishing of this class ensures the existence of connections on such a sheaf. Only topological and algebraic methods of sheaf theory are used. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0903.00045].