Cerkiew greckokatolicka na Pomorzu Zachodnim ćwierć wieku po akcji „Wisła” w świetle sprawozdań Wydziałów do Spraw Wyznań

Abstract

The deportation of the Ukrainian population to former German territoties was to facilitate the process of its assimilation. The religious separateness of the Ukrainian community, among which the Greek Catholics predominated, hindered the implementation of these plans. The religious policy defined by the communist party aimed at the complete liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church by supporting the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church. De-Stalinization, however, liberalized the position towards Greek Catholics. Although state authorities did not legalize this religion, they allowed to organize informal pastoral centers. A quarter of a century after Operation Vistula in Western Pomerania, there were fifteen of them. The existence of Greek Catholic pastoral centers not only crossed out the assumptions of the state’s religious policy, but first of all prevented the assimilation of the Ukrainian population.