Abstract
The article seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis a rather challenging ques-tion in historical sociolinguistics, in particular the interaction of the concepts of lan-guage and power.The primary objective of the paper is to exhaustively discuss the role of Archbishop and later Metropolitan Ilarion (Ohiienko) in the development of the func-tions of the Ukrainian language for communicative practices of Orthodox Ukrainian believers of the Chełm-Podlasie diocese during the German occupation. The analysis is based on the epistolary legacy of Archbishop Ilarion, the letters of public fi gures ad-dressed to him, his sermons and academic works, as well as eyewitness testimonies of his activities, traveler’s observations about the Ukrainianization of public space and periodicals of that time, including the newspaper «Chełm Land», «Kracow News» and «Ukrainian Orthodox Collection». The methods of analysis applied in the present research include sociolinguistic interpretation, biographical method, as well as ele-ments of discourse and comparative analysis.The results of the study conclusively demonstrate that in order to implement the functions of the Ukrainian language in the Church and in the communication of the Orthodox Ukrainian population of Chełm-Podlasie lands, the activity of Archbishop Ilarion covered the following areas: formation of the concept of Ukrainian as a liturgi-cal language; improving the content of sermons and messages in the Ukrainian lan-guage; completion of work on the translation of the entire Bible into Ukrainian, and the distribution of translations of liturgical literature among the population; building Ukrainian-language ties between the Church and Ukrainian believers.The author of the article notes that promising processes in the church and reli-gious life of Orthodox Ukrainians in the Chełm-Podlasie diocese were stopped by new geopolitical factors in 1944: the arrival of Soviet troops and the Polish-Soviet agreement on resettlement of the Ukrainians from Chełm and Podlasie lands and the Poles from the USSR.The results obtained in the process of research deepen the characterization of the lan-guage situation on the outskirts of the ethnically Ukrainian territory of Chełm and Podlasie.
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