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The Ruthenian Uniate Church (Belarusian: Руская уніяцкая царква, romanized: Ruskaja unijackaja carkva; Ukrainian: Руська унійна церква, romanized: Ruśka unijna cerkva; Latin: Ecclesia Ruthena unita; Polish: Ruski Kościół Unicki) was a particular church of the Catholic Church in the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Church leaders have also been targeted for assassination. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has had to move between safe houses to avoid threats. [49] The ongoing conflict has led to significant damage and threats to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and its members. [50] [51]
The Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia was an ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, a particular Eastern Catholic church. It was erected in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1595/96 following the Union of Brest. It was effectively disestablished by the partitions of Poland (1772–1795).
Religious situation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1573. The Union of Brest [a] took place in 1595–1596 and represented an agreement by Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Ruthenian portions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to accept the Pope's authority while maintaining Eastern Orthodox liturgical practices, leading to the formation of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, which ...
The Catholic Church was annihilated, Church institutions were confiscated and expropriated; churches, monasteries and seminaries closed and looted. [12] After the war, the Catholic Uniate churches were integrated under the Moscow Patriarchy, after all residing bishops and apostolic administrators were arrested on March 6, 1946. [13]
History of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; History of Christianity in Ukraine. Eastern Catholic Churches: Ruthenian Uniate Church to forced dissolution in Soviet Union; 1595 Union of Brest: 1806 transfer of Metropolitan See from Kyiv to Lemberg: 1839 Synod of Polotsk: 1875 Conversion of Chełm Eparchy: 1907 First diaspora bishop: 1946 ...
In 1807 the Russian Empire appointed its own primates for the Ruthenian Uniate Church without the permission of the Pope. [1] Irakliy (1808–1809) Hryhoriy (1809–1814) Josafat (1818–1838) Following the Synod of Polatsk (1838), the Ruthenian Uniate Church was forcibly abolished on the territory of the Russian Empire.
The Synod of Lviv [a] or the Council of Lviv (Ukrainian: Львівський собор, romanized: Lvivskyi sobor; Russian: Львовский собор, romanized: Lvovsky sobor) was a March 1946 synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church that declared the 1596 Union of Brest to be annulled, thereby unifying the church with the Russian Orthodox Church.