Uniate Church

In his writings, Vyshenskyi opposed Catholicism and the uniate church.

Isaiah was a conservative and a decided foe of Catholicism and the Uniate church.

He also began to question the domination of the so-called Uniate churches by the See of Rome.

Approximately 30 percent of Catholics belong to the Eastern Rite Uniate Church.

Coats pointed out that in 1453 Constantinople had officially been in communion with Rome as a Uniate church.

Shanov remained head of the Bulgarian Uniate Church during the Balkan wars.

Later that year he left the Uniate church in protest against the church hierarchy's sanctions against him and converted to Lutheranism.

In 1689 he returned to Kiev, broke from the Uniate church and returned to Eastern Orthodoxy.

Apart from the Catholic and Uniate churches, there was also a synagogue, Jewish baths and a market just outside of the city limits.

At first it was an Orthodox church, while later, after becoming a Uniate church, it was also provided with another, Catholic, altar.

Uniate services were then held in a Roman Catholic Chapel, until a new Uniate church was built in 1987.

And he has gone to Moscow to participate in a demonstration and hunger strike, wearing his priestly robes, demanding legalization of the Uniate church.

Religion was still persecuted, with many churches being destroyed or converted into anti-religion museums, though the Uniate church survived in Western Ukraine by going underground.

The Greek Catholic or Uniate church, reunified with the Orthodox Church by fiat in 1948, was restored after the 1989 revolution.

In recent talks with the Vatican, Russian Orthodox patriarchs have acknowledged that an underground Ukrainian Catholic church, called the Uniate church, still exists.

The Russian Orthodox Church does not officially acknowledge the existence of the Uniate church and considers it to be incorporated into the Orthodox hierarchy.

Free of Polish domination, unlike in other areas of Ukraine the Uniate church had become closely linked to the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian national movement.

The main Eastern groups are the autonomous Orthodox churches; the Uniate churches, which are in communion with Rome; and the independent Nestorian Church.

About 1600 Ogiński family built a Uniate church and founded the Abbey of the Holy Spirit (Lithuanian: Šventosios dvasios).

Property Taken Away More troublesome is that when the Uniate church was outlawed, many of its buildings and property were given to the Russian Orthodox Church.

When some Bulgarians threatened to abandon the Orthodox Church altogether and form a Bulgarian Uniate church loyal to Rome, Russia intervened with the Sultan.

The shortage of priests was so extreme that the party gave a crash course in Orthodox doctrine to "politically mature" teachers in the region and sent them into Uniate churches as replacements.

Outlawed by Stalin in 1946 because of suspected links with Ukrainian nationalism, and forcibly incorporated into the Russian Orthodox Church, the Uniate Church had continued in secret.

This propaganda was accompanied with the liquidation of Uniate churches (eastern-rite catholic churches) in the Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania which were forcibly merged with the Orthodox church.

Thus after the November Uprising in 1831, the Synod of Polotsk which disestablished the Uniate church outside the Kingdom of Poland did not affect Eparchy of Chełm.