St. George's Cathedral, Lviv: The cathedral also holds a predominant position in Ukrainian religious and cultural terms.[1]
The Eastern Catholic clergy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church were a hereditary tight-knit social caste that dominated Ukrainian society in Western Ukraine from the late eighteenth until the mid-twentieth centuries, following the reforms instituted by Joseph II, Emperor of Austria. Because, like their Eastern Orthodox brethren, married men in the Ukrainian Catholic Church could become priests (although they cannot become Bishops unless they are widowers), they were able to establish "priestly dynasties", often associated with specific regions, for many generations. Numbering approximately 2,000-2,500 by the 19th century, priestly families tended to marry within their group, constituting a tight-knit hereditary caste.[2] In the absence of a significant culturally and politically active native nobility (although there was considerable overlap, with more than half of the clerical families also being of petty noble origin [3]), and enjoying a virtual monopoly on education and wealth within western Ukrainian society, the clergy came to form that group's native aristocracy. The clergy adopted Austria's role for them as bringers of culture and education to the Ukrainian countryside. Most Ukrainian social and political movements in Austrian-controlled territory emerged or were highly influenced by the clergy themselves or by their children. This influence was so great that western Ukrainians were accused by their Polish rivals of wanting to create a theocracy in western Ukraine.[4] The central role played by the Ukrainian clergy or their children in western Ukrainian society would weaken somewhat at the end of the nineteenth century but would continue until the Soviet Union forcibly dissolved the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukrainian territories in the mid-twentieth century (the so-called Council of Lviv, 1946).
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Christianity. This tradition is represented inUkraine by the Byzantine Rite, the Eastern Orthodox and EasternCatholic churches, which have been at various...
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the...
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The EasternCatholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern...
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Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding...
a dialect of the Ukrainian language. As traditional adherents of Eastern Christianity, the majority of Rusyns are EasternCatholics, though a minority...
from the Catholicclergy. In general, the EasternCatholic Churches allow ordination of married men as priests. Within the lands of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic...
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on sugar plantations in Hawaii, and were not able to develop their own churches. UkrainianCatholic, Orthodox, and Jewish clergyin mainland North America...
the Eastern Orthodox in "suitable circumstances and with Church authority" is both possible and encouraged. The Catholic Church allows its clergy to administer...
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south-western parts of Ukraine that are roughly within Zakarpatska Oblast. As an EasternCatholic Church, it is in full communion with the Catholic Church. The eparchy...
Church. The other 23 EasternCatholic Churches are headed by bishops, some of which are titled Patriarch or Major Archbishop. In this context the descriptors...
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relations with them. The pope does not generally appoint bishops or clergyin the EasternCatholic Churches, deferring to their internal governance structures...
means "Lord". Although the styles and titles of EasternCatholicclergy varies from language to language, in the Greek and Arabic-speaking world the following...
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SSHA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian religious organization of Ukrainian diaspora under jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States...
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