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| | Religious - Christian - The Balkan Peninsula and Adjacent Areas |
 | | The Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina and The Bosnian Orthodox Church | | | The Montenegrin Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro | | | Serbian Orthodox Church - Diocese of Raska and Prizren. |
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http://learning.lib.vt.edu/slav/relig_chr_balkan.html
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| | Romania |
| | A church in Urca (Cluj County) was demolished in August-September 2003. | | | The Romanian Orthodox Church is the predominant religion in the country. | | | Of the 197 permits, 102 were granted to the Orthodox Church, 6 to the Catholic Church, 14 to the Greek Catholic Church, 3 to the Reformed Church, 12 to the Baptist Church, 7 to the Pentecostal Church, 11 to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 30 to Jehovah's Witnesses, and the rest to other religions. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35479.htm
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| | Eastern Orthodox Church - Enpsychlopedia |
| | Eastern Catholic Churches include the Armenian Catholic Church, the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Eparchy of Krizevci, the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, the Romanian Catholic Church, the Ruthenian Catholic Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. | | | Oriental Orthodox churches include the Coptic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Church. | | | Both churches claim to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and reject the other's claim to this title. |
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http://www.grohol.com/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church
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| | Articles - Romanian Orthodox Church |
| | The communist government suppressed the Romanian Catholic Church in 1948, the churches being confiscated and given to the Orthodox Church, while the Romanian Catholics were re-accepted into the Orthdox Church in 1950. | | | The Romanian Orthodox Church is the only Orthodox church using a Romance language in the divine liturgy. | | | The Romanian Orthodox Church is organized as the Romanian Patriarchate. |
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http://www.kamero.net/articles/Romanian_Orthodox_Church
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| | Greek Catholic: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The Churches that sided with Constantinople are known collectively as the Eastern Orthodox Churches. | | | Most Eastern Catholics are also directly subject to a patriarch or major archbishop, who has authority for all the bishops and the other faithful of his rite or particular Church (canons 56 and 151 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches). | | | The Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion of faith and of acceptance of authority with the see of Rome, but retain their distinctive liturgical rites, laws and customs, and traditional devotions. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/eastern-rite
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| | Eastern Rite - free-definition |
| | Their union with the Catholic Church, in which they are sui iuris Churches, gives rise to the term Uniate, which is not used by the Vatican. | | | According to Catholic Tradition, the Catholic Church, in the fullest meaning of the term, includes apostolic churches (those having their authority handed down by the apostles) who are in communion with the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). | | | Western (or "Latin-Rite") Catholic bishops are subject directly to the Pope, but most Eastern-rite Catholic bishops are subject indirectly to the pope via one of six Catholic " patriarchs of the east", who sit in Alexandria, Antioch, Antelias, Baghdad, Beirut, and Damascus but who acknowledge the primacy of the Pope. |
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http://www.free-definition.com/Uniate-Church.html
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| | Background Notes Archive - Europe |
| | The Greek Catholic or Uniate church, reunified with the Orthodox Church by fiat in 1948, was restored after the 1989 revolution. | | | Religious affiliation tends to follow ethnic lines, with most ethnic Romanians identifying with the Romanian Orthodox Church. | | | Religions: Orthodox 86.8%, Roman Catholic 5%, Reformed Protestant, Baptist, and Pentecostal 5%, Greek Catholic (Uniate) 1%, Jewish less than 0.1%. |
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http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/eur/romania9706.html
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| | Articles - Romanian Greek-Catholic Uniate Church |
| | The Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic survived only in secrecy and illegally; and only after the 1989 Romanian Revolution was it able to appear again in public and attempt to reclaim its churches and other property, a process that continues through today. | | | In the meantime, the Orthodox Church was "purged" by priests unfriendly to the regime and for the next 40 years, it had good relations with the communist authorities. | | | The Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic (in Romanian: Biserica RomânÄ UnitÄ cu Roma, Greco-CatolicÄ) is a Catholic Church of Eastern Rite. |
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http://www.kamero.net/articles/Romanian_Catholic_Church
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| | Top Page 1 |
| | Romanian Orthodox Church spokesman proposed as a solution the new draft law regulating religious denominations. | | | The Memorandum gives a general overview of why Romanian Greek Catholic Church is denied religious freedom and anounces several ways of action envisaged by the group of initiative. | | | Representatives of Romanian Helsinki Committee and of the Center for Legal Resources have also underlined the lack of efficiency of the previous negotiated solutions, such as the dialogue committees between the two churches, because for instance only 15 churches out of more than 2000 have been returned to the Greek-Catholic Church following this method. |
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http://en.crsg.ro/toppage1.htm
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| | Adherents.com |
| | In 1839 the Uniate Church of Belarus, to which about 75% of the population adhered, was forcibly converted to Russian Orthodoxy. | | | Eastern churches that profess doctrinal teachings (including filioque) of the Roman Catholic Church, accept papal primacy, and are in communion with Rome. | | | Though officially reconstituted in 1983, the Catholic Apostolic Church in America continues an unbroken existence from 1950 when Stephen Meyer Corradi-Scarella established an American outpost of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Brazil [which was] formed in 1946 by Dom Carlos Duarte Costa, a former bishop of the Roman Catholic Church... |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_141.html
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| | nationalism romanian - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | The Suppression of the Romanian Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church | | | The Suppression of the Romanian Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church...Vasile The foundation of the Romanian Greek Catholic (also called Uniate...Roman Catholic learning accessible to Romanians and produced an educated elite which... | | | Catholic Church, Catholicism, Churches, Orthodox Eastern--Political aspects, Churches, Orthodox Eastern--Social aspects, Greece--History, Greece--Political aspects, Greece--Religious aspects, Greek history, Nationalism--Religious aspects, Nationalism--Social aspects, Orthodox Eastern Church--Political aspects, Orthodox Eastern Church--Social aspects, Religion and politics |
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http://www.questia.com/search/nationalism-romanian
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| | Ukrainian Uniate Church |
| | The Ukrainian Uniate Church was established in 1596 by the Union of Brest-Litovsk. | | | Like other Uniate churches, the Ukrainian Uniate Church maintains allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church while observing the rites of the Eastern Orthodox Church. | | | In 1946 at the Synod of Lvov the Uniates were forced to join the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/christ/east/uuc.html
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| | New Independent States - Ukraine (religious history) |
| | Alternately called the Greek Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic Church, or Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Uniate church became a unique religious body within Roman Catholic and Orthodox practice. | | | Uniate churches, as symbols of Ukraine independent identity, were suppressed. | | | Ukrainian Catholic Church (Uniate, Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church). |
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http://wrc.lingnet.org/ukrarel.htm
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| | New Independent States - Belarus (National History) |
| | In return, the Uniate Church retained its traditional Orthodox rites and customs as well as a measure of autonomy in non-doctrinal matters; it was also given the same rights and privileges as the Roman Catholic Church. | | | "Orthodox Russia tolerated the Uniate Church to a certain degree, but in 1839, when three-quarters of all Belorussians were Uniates, Tsar Nicholas I (with the support of the Russian Orthodox Church) abolished the Uniate Church and forced the Uniates to reconvert to Orthodoxy. | | | The new Uniate Church acknowledged the supremacy of the Roman Catholic pope and accepted articles of Roman Catholic religious doctrine. |
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http://wrc.lingnet.org/belarhis.htm
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| | Interview with the Rev. John Lapidus |
| | In the 1990s, when a conflict between the Uniates and the Orthodox broke out, we were instrumental in organizing a quadrilateral commission with representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Catholic Church. | | | The problem is that the members of the Ukrainian Uniate (sic) Church are in opposition to both the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and to the Vatican. | | | According to legal decisions of the Western Ukrainian courts, if there is only one church in a village, no matter to whom the church belongs, if there are both Uniate and Ukrainian Orthodox communities in the village, they are to share the church and to administer their services in turn. |
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http://ncronline.org/mainpage/specialdocuments/lapidus.htm
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| | Eastern Rite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is therefore redundant to speak of the "Maronite Catholic Church" or the "Syro-Malabar Catholic Church", and quite inaccurate to refer to them as "Uniate" Churches. | | | The term Uniat or Uniate is, usually pejoratively, applied to such churches, but usually not by the churches themselves nor by the Holy See, though it has been used by both historically in the past (e.g., in the Ex Quo of | | | Romanian Greek-Catholic Uniate Church (in Romanian: Biserica Română Unită cu Roma, Greco-Catolică), and historically, the term has been self-applied even in America, as on the cornerstone of Ss. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Rite
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| | Festivities of reconsecration of the Uniate Sanctuary (Cerkiew) in Kostomloty |
| | The Uniate Church is an old and important part of the Catholic Church in Poland. | | | A wooden Orthodox church ("cerkiew") was built there around 1620, which then served as an Uniate sanctuary during the years 1779 - 1875, to be again re-converted to an Orthodox church at the time of Uniate repressions. | | | The Uniates, who resisted that order were persecuted and the clergy, who did not want to join the Orthodox Church had been deported to Siberia or put in prison. |
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http://www.wajszczuk.v.pl/kostomloty/sprawozdanie_e.htm
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| | FREE In-depth report - The Uniate Church - Romania |
| | The suppression of the Uniate Church required collaboration between the regime and the Romanian Orthodox Church hierarchy, which maintained that the Uniates had been forcibly subjugated to Rome and were simply being reintegrated into the church where they properly belonged. | | | That the Uniate Church survived, albeit precariously and underground, long after it officially had ceased to exist was an embarrassment to the regime and the Orthodox leadership. | | | In 1948, in an obvious attempt to use religion to foster political unity, the country's 1.7 million Uniates were forcibly reattached to the Romanian Orthodox Church. |
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http://www.exploitz.com/Romania-The-Uniate-Church-cg.php
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| | The Tragedy of Our Uniate Brothers |
| | When they interact with Uniates, who bring to their dialogues with Orthodoxy a wholly Latin view of the Orthodox Church, the Orthodox themselves are influenced by these views. | | | One must also note that Uniates in the United States (and they are now largely a church in diaspora) live with a view of Orthodoxy which separates them from the truly mainstream spiritual and theological life of Orthodoxy. | | | We must enlighten our Uniate brothers that there is nothing edifying when a KGB agent passing as an Orthodox Bishop (Nikodim of Leningrad) dies before a Roman Pontiff after orchestrating a denial of the Faith which he supposedly represented, all in an effort to court influence in the Western Church for his Kremlin cronies. |
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http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/uniate_tragedy.htm
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| | (12/20/2004) Opposing Wings Of Catholic Church Take Sides In Ukraine Election |
| | The Uniate Church was established in 1596 when Metropolitan Mikhail Rohoza of Kiev and other Orthodox bishops signed the Union of Brest, pledging allegiance to the Vatican but retaining Eastern rites and religious practices. | | | As the Russian Empire expanded its power into the eastern part of Ukraine throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the incursions were marked by repression against the Uniates and forced conversions to Orthodoxy, as Moscow used the church as an instrument to "Russify" the Ukrainians. | | | The western section of Ukraine, however, remained part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Uniate Church became a bulwark of Ukrainian cultural and religious identity. |
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http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0412a/ukrainereligion.html
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| | Travel through south-eastern Poland |
| | Further uphill is the Carmelite church, a seat of a Uniate bishop prior to 1945. | | | North of the Rynek are the Renaissance parish church and, on the hill beyond, a fortified Benedictine convent, while to the east is the mid-eighteenth-century Uniate church. | | | Most were forcibly expelled in 1947, but their wooden churches, originally built for either the Orthodox or Uniate rite, survive as a reminder of their former presence. |
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http://www.lemko.org/lih/travel/beskid.html
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| | The Churches in Eastern Europe - promoting information and awareness |
| | When the Eastern-Rite Catholic (Uniate) Church was crushed in 1839 many Belarusians became 'Church Poles': that is, although officially classed as Orthodox they would frequent Polish Catholic churches on Sundays. | | | One thing the Vatican is doing is to insist that all newly-ordained Uniate priests be unmarried; this is an unpopular move in Belarus, where priests are traditionally married men. | | | There has been an attempt by two or three priests of the Orthodox Church to link up with the Autocephalous Belarusian Orthodox Church based in Canada. |
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http://www.cewern.org.uk/belarus.html
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| | Belarusian Historical Review |
| | The Uniate supporters expressed their patriotism in their activity in the name of nation's spiritual revival by means of correction of the Orthodox Church using the experience of the Catholic West. | | | Suggestions that the Belarusians are exclusively orthodox community and that the Uniate Church promoted polonization of the population of the Grand Duchy are unplausible or hypocritical miths of historiography. | | | The orthodox belief, churches, clergy and congregation in the Grand Duchy are named "Rusian" in the sources of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the inhabitants of the Russian state were named "Moscovites" there. |
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http://www.data.minsk.by/bhr/eng/5/5_1.htm
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| | Major Branches of Religions |
| | Certainly it also includes non-Latin Rite Catholic churches such as Uniates, Greek Catholics, Ukrainian Catholics, Maronites, etc., all of which are in full papal communion and regarded as part of the same religious body as the "Roman Catholic" church. | | | The fact that there are non-Latin Rite Catholics such as these is one of the reasons that many Catholics do not like the term "Roman Catholic Church" as a name for their church. | | | Occasionally "Catholic" is used, as in the table above, to refer to a branch of Christianity that includes the Catholic Church headquartered at the Vatican, as well as relatively recent off-shoots that still consider themselves Catholic, such as the Old Catholic churches. |
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http://www.adherents.com/adh_branches.html
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| | THE CARPATHO-RUSYNS |
| | The Uniates were allowed to retain their Eastern-rite traditions, but they had to recognize the Pope in Rome, not the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as the ultimate head of their church. | | | The result was the creation between 1596 and 1646 of a Uniate Church, that is an Eastern Christian Church in union with Rome. | | | Hence from the seventeenth century, Carpatho-Rusyns were either Orthodox or Uniates. |
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http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/cra/chap1.htm
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| | Decisions of the Holy Synod |
| | The Uniates pulled out of the Commission under a strong pressure from radically-minded representatives of the Ukrainian political movement called "Rukh" who declared that in case of their coming to power all the churches would be taken away from the Orthodox and given to the Eastern rite Catholics. | | | Unfortunately, a direct talk with the Uniates proved to be impossible because the Greek-Catholics withdrew from the so-called Quadripartite Commission which was set up in January 1990 and which was made up of representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Roman Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Eastern rite Catholics in Western Ukraine. | | | In view of this, in their opinion, there was no need whatsoever to conduct a dialogue with the Orthodox Church. |
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http://www.orthodox.org.ru/se100671.htm
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| | The power of dead bodies in Eastern Europe |
| | During the 18th century, Micu was a Bishop of the Uniate Church, a fusion of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox faiths created by the Hapsburg imperial government that ruled Romania. | | | The Romanian Communists merged the Uniate Church with the Eastern Orthodox Church. | | | The Uniates finally received permission from the Pope to exhume Micu’s corpse and return it to his homeland. |
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http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2005/3/18/news/article9.html
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| | East European Constitutional Review |
| | This institution, the Uniate Church, was formed in the eighteenth century, in then-Habsburg Transylvania, when Orthodox priests were persuaded by the regime that their acceptance of Catholicism and the authority of the Pope—while keeping the Eastern Orthodox ceremony-would earn them equal status with the Catholic Church and the Hungarian and German Protestant churches. | | | In 1997, the Uniate priest and Christian Dem-ocrat, Senator Matei Boila, proposed a law returning to Uniates their churches in villages and towns where there are at least two now-Orthodox, formerly Uniate, churches and where a Uniate community still exists. | | | Some of them returned to the Uniate faith in 1990 but, in many instances, the older generation is the only one to identify itself as Uniate, while the middle one is Orthodox, and young people are nonpracticing. |
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http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/vol7num2/feature/rulerpatriarch.html
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| | The Martyrdom of the Drelow Uniates 17th of January 1874 |
| | The tsars decided to make the Uniates return to the Orthodox Church, which was practically under their control. | | | When the church was finished, a new Uniate (Catholic, using Byzantine ceremonial) parish was created. | | | At first Uniates were persuaded to voluntarily convert to the Orthodox confession. |
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http://www.drelow.siedlce.opoka.org.pl/meczennicy/historia_e.htm
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