Czech, Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn
Genealogy Research Pages
The Greek Catholic Church
Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine: The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867-1900, is written by John-Paul Himka.
Using Soviet archival materials declassified in the 1980s, John-Paul Himka examines a period during which the Greek Catholic Church in Galicia was involved in a protracted, and at times bitter, struggle to maintain its distinctive, historically developed rites and customs.
He focuses on the way differing concepts of Rutherian nationality affected the perception and course of church affairs while showing the influence of local ecclesiastical matters on the development and acceptance of these divergent concepts of nationality.
The implications and complications of the Galician imbroglio are engagingly explained in this latest addition to Himka's work on nationality in late nineteenth-century Galicia.
His analysis of the relationship between the church and the national movement is a valuable addition to the study of religion and national movements in East Europe and beyond.
Topics covered by this book are thematic Perspectives, the Greek Catholic Church, the Ruthenians and Their National Movement, and Galicia.
The book features "A Glimpse into the Future", the Canonization of Iosafat Kuntsevych and Its Reception in Galicia, Mykhail Kuzemsky, Bishop of Chelm, the Conflict in Przemysl, the Appointment of a New Metropolitan of Halych, the Appointment of Ioann Stupnytsky as Bishop of Przemysl, the Sion Circle, the National Populists and the Church, and the St. George Program of 1871.
Read about the Conversion of Chelm Eparchy to Orthodoxy, the Three-Barred Crosses and Kolpaks, the Resurrectionists, Hnylychky and the Treason Trial, the Reform of the Basilian Order, the Resignation of Metropolitan Iosyf Sembratovych, and the Excommunication of Father Ioann Naumovych.
This book covers the Erection of Stanyslaviv Eparchy, the Lviv Provincial Synod of 1891, Andrei Sheptytsky as Bishop of Stanyslaviv, Ruthenian National Politics and the Church, and the Politics of Sylvestr Sembratovych.
Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine: The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867-1900, was published by McGill-Queens University Press in Febraury 1999.
The book is hard cover with 236 pages.
Order:
Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine
Continue to Czech and Slovak Bookshop
Continue to Genealogical Research in Slovakia
Continue to Czech, Bohemian, and Moravian Genealogical Research
Continue to It's All Relative Home Page
Last updated on 12 February 2001
Graphics by Lori's Heavenly Creations
Music courtesy of Randall Kopchak
and Jam Publications