Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Research Articles

Christian unity: the search for ways to achieve

Last year, the anniversary of all Christianity, witnessed a number of significant events caused by a new interest in understanding the problem of the unity of the Christian Church on the turn of the millennium. Due to the confidentiality of Ukraine, some of these events have or will have an immediate impact on Christianity in Ukraine and on the whole Ukrainian society as a whole. Undoubtedly, the main event, or more enlightened in the press, is a new impetus to the unification of the UOC-KP and the UAOC. But we would like to focus on two documents relating to the problem of Christian unity, the emergence of which was almost unnoticed by the wider public. But at the same time, these documents are too important as they outline the future policy of other Christian denominations by two influential Ukrainian christian churches - the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. These are the "Basic Principles of the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the" I ", adopted by the Anniversary Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Concept of the Ecumenical Position of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, adopted by the Synod of the Bishops of the UGCC. It is clear that the theme of the second document is wider, but at the same time, ecumenism, unification is impossible without solving the problem of relations with others, which makes it possible to compare the approaches laid down in the mentioned documents to the building of relations with other Christian confessions.

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the context of Uniate Churches

Throughout history, the nature of the UGCC is at the center of the attention of researchers. Until now, they are divided into "Westerners" - supporters of Romanization of the church, that is, its purely Catholic nature, and "Byzantines" - those who defend its eastern rite. In addition, the study of the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church can be divided into two groups: negativist works (in particular, Orthodox or similar to Soviet historiography) and apologetic works (Catholic, in particular, Ukrainian Catholic historiography). The first group is primarily represented by the works of Ukrainian Soviet historians of the postwar period, which have very well-known names: "Unia: the path of betrayal and disgrace", "UniCity - an instrument of clerical anti-communism", "Uniate Church - enemy of the Ukrainian people", "The reactionary role of the union in the history of Ukrainian people "etc. Of course, the significance of such ideologically exacerbated "research" as a scientific development is doubtful. They have, if not scientific, but rather a journalistic character.

The place of Greek Catholicism in the self-identification of Ukrainians in their civilizational environment

Among the significant religious factors that influenced and influence the cultural orientation of the Ukrainian nation, the phenomenon of Ukrainian Greek Catholicism is a unique place. In recent years, researchers of this phenomenon have focused their efforts primarily on identifying the national and consoli- datory role of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in identifying the opportunities and achievements of the Greek-Catholic denomination in identifying Ukrainian Greek Catholics in their identity between the neighboring-Polish Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox - ethnic groups.

Book ReviewsThe Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State, 1939–1950. By Bohdan Rostyslav Bociurkiw. Edmondton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1996. Pp. xvi+310. $39.95.

Book Reviews<i>The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State, 1939–1950</i>. By Bohdan Rostyslav Bociurkiw. Edmondton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1996. Pp. xvi+310. $39.95.

Bohdan Rostyslav Bociurkiw. &lt;italic&gt;The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939–1950)&lt;/italic&gt;. Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. 1996. Pp. xvi, 310. $39.95

Bohdan Rostyslav Bociurkiw. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939–1950). Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. 1996. Pp. xvi, 310. $39.95 Bociurkiw Bohdan Rostyslav. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939–1950). Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. 1996. Pp. xvi, 310. $39.95. Dennis J. Dunn Dennis J. Dunn Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 103, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 560–561, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/103.2.560 Published: 01 April 1998

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939-1950)

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939-1950)

Educational activity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the 20-30th years of the twentieth century

The main purpose of the educational activities of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the 20-30th years of the twentieth century. was the upbringing of the younger generation. The Church's Church created a holistic system of its activities, which was intended to broaden the Christian upbringing.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the Contemporary USSR

In 1944, the Soviet Army recaptured Galicia and Transcarpathia from the Germans, and the last stronghold of Ukrainian Greek Catholicism fell under Soviet control. Following the arrests of all Uniate bishops and of the “recalcitrant” clergy, the Lviv Sobor of March 1946 nullified the 1596 Union of Brest, which first established the Greek Catholic Church, and forcibly “reunified” the Uniates with the state-controlled Russian Orthodox Church. The post-World War II period saw the gradual suppression of the Uniate Church throughout Carpatho-Ukraine, Poland, and Eastern Slovakia, and marked the beginning of more than four decades of struggle for Eastern Rite Ukrainian Catholics in the USSR to maintain their banned Church against the overpowering alliance of the Soviet regime and the Russian Orthodox Church. Despite the enforced “reunification,” the Greek Catholic Church has remained the most important cultural and institutional preserve of national identity in Western Ukraine. The following is an examination of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's attempts to assert its right to legal existence since the beginning of political and social revitalization under Mikhail Gorbachev.