Citations:Uniate Church

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• 1854 May 13, Anonymous, conducted by Charles Dickens, “The true story of the nuns of Minsk”, in Household words, volume 9, number 216, London: Bradbury & Evans, →ISSN, page 290:

  Their coupling-chains were removed; but their irons remained on their feet; and these they wore for the seven years of their persecution. At this convent – which had formerly been Basilian, and had belonged to the Uniate Church – they found thirteen of its former owners Basilian nuns, subject to the same treatment which they themselves were about to undergo.

• 1908, Adrian Fortescue, The Orthodox Eastern Church, 2nd edition, London: Catholic Truth Society, →OCLC, page 318:

  At first they thought of joining the Catholic Church. They applied to the Uniate Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, and were assured by him that the Holy See would allow them to be a Uniate Church, keeping their own Canon Law, and using the Byzantine liturgy in their own tongue.

• 1990, Peter Duncan, “The USSR”, in Michael Watson, editor, Contemporary minority nationalism, London [u.a.]: Routledge, published 2001, →ISBN, page 158:

  In the Ukraine, for example, the western part of the republic where the Uniate Church was traditionally strong is the centre of nationalist activity. The Uniates are Catholics of the eastern rite who recognise the Pope as head of the church.

• 2008, Paul Robert Magosci, “Greek Catholics: historical background”, in Stéphanie Mahieu, Vlad Naumescu, editors, Churches in-between: Greek Catholic churches in postsocialist Europe (Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia; 16), Berlin: LIT, →ISBN, page 41:

  In contrast to the Russian Empire, where the tsarist government outlawed the Uniate Church, in former Polish lands annexed by the Habsburg-ruled Austrian Empire the church not only survived but also flourished. As early as 1772, the Habsburgs acquired the region of Galicia, whose eastern half was inhabited largely by Uniates ( mostly ethnic Ruthenians/Ukrainians). In 1774, Habsburg Austria officially renamed the church Greek Catholic and provided for it a seminary to train priests.

• 2014, Ewan W. Anderson, “Ukraine”, in Global geopolitical flashpoints: an atlas of conflict, Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, →ISBN, page 352:

  Apart from the west-east split between Ukrainians and Russians, and between the Uniate Church and the Orthodox Church, the other major internal conflict has been over the Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea.

• 2015, Daniela Kalkandzhieva, “The growth of Moscow's jurisdiction”, in The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948: from decline to resurrection (Routledge religion, society and government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States; 2), London [u.a.]: Routledge, →ISBN, page 207:

  Stalin's policy of the "extended sword" included "persecution and institutional absorption of the Uniate Church throughout Soviet controlled or annexed Eastern Europe: West Ukraine, West White Russia, Romania, Carpatho-Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and Poland."

• 2015, Małgorzata Flaga, Kamila Łucjan, “Visible conflicts on invisible borders: religious antagonisms in the eastern borderland of Poland”, in Jenny Berglund, Thomas Lundén, Peter Strandbrink, editors, Crossings and crosses: borders, educations, and religions in Northern Europe, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 66:

  Moreover, the Russian tsars also aimed to weaken and destroy the Uniate Church. This was formally carried out for the first time in 1839 by Tsar Nicholas I, who abolished the Uniate Church in the Russian Empire, and then by Alexander II, who dissolved the Uniate Church in the Kingdom of Poland in 1875

• 2015, Jolita Liškevičienė, “The Eastern Church and the question of Union”, in Marius Iršėnas, Tojana Račiūnaitė, et al., editors, The Lithuanian millennium: history, art and culture, Translated by Ignė Aidukaitė; Malcolm Stewart; Diana Bartkutė Barnard, Vilnius, Lithuania: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, →ISBN, page 166:

  The first years of the Uniate Church were the hardest. Despite the official support of the king and the orthodox churches and monasteries which had been assigned, the spread of the union was often accompanied by violent reprisals from the Disuniates.

• 2016, Nándor F. Dreisziger, Church and society in Hungary and in the Hungarian diaspora, Toronto [u.a.]: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page unnumbered ebook location:

  Finally, and most importantly, the following month adherents of the Uniate Church were told to convert to the Orthodox religion; simultaneously, the Uniate clergy began to be arrested. Provisions were made to expropriate the Uniate Church's possessions and transfer them to the Orthodox Church. Finally, at the end of 1948, the Uniate Church was abolished.

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