Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Natalia Shlikhta
• BRIAN PORTER-SZŰCS
• BRUCE R. BERGLUND
• Berglund, Bruce R
• Porter-Szűcs, Brian

Titel

Competing Concepts of “Reunification” behind the Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Ist Teil von

• Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe, 2010, p.159

Auflage

NED - New edition, 1

Ort / Verlag

Hungary: Central European University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The L’viv Council of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, convoked by order of the Soviet regime on March 8, 1946, declared the “unanimous willingness” of the faithful of the Church in Eastern Galicia to “liquidate the Union, break all ties with the Vatican, and return to the Holy Orthodox faith of our ancestors and the Russian Orthodox Church.”¹ The Council’s decision, considered uncanonical by the majority of observers at the time and scholars in the decades to come, put an end to the legal functioning of the Catholic Church of the Eastern Rite in Western Ukraine, which had come into