Contents of Analecta OSBM, Section II
Volume XV (XXI) 1-4, 1996
Anniversary of the Unions of Brest and Uzhorod
I. ARTICULI
ISIDORE PATRYLO, OSBM, The Articles of the Union of
Brest
(Ukrainian)
After a brief introduction, the author presents various lists of the conditions,
or rather demands, of the Kievan hierarchy, as well as the responses of the
Polish king and the Pope. In the conclusion of this his article, Father Patrylo
considers the meaning and the canonical force of these articles, and adds
some later changes to these articles.
SOPHIA SENYK, The
Background of the Union of Brest
(English) available online
Gives a concise but very thorough and well documented history of the Brest Union and of the opposition to it.
ATHANASIUS PEKAR, OSBM, Ipatij Potij,
the Protagonist of the Union
(Ukrainian)
Presents an exhaustive and solidly documented biography of the main author of the Holy Union, with a special consideration of his role in the realization and defense of the Union of Brest, basing his research on the original documents and sources.
ATHANASIUS PEKAR, OSBM, The Union of Uzhorod and Its
Authors (1646)
(Ukrainian)
Describes various efforts of the Mucachevo bishops in Transcarpathia to reunite with the Holy See, which eventually paved the road toward the Union of Uzhorod in 1646, for which the Union of Brest had played an important role. The partial Union of Uzhorod was then gradually extended to the other parts of the eparchy, and reached its completion in 1721, when all the clergy of the Maramorosh district subscribed to the Union. The author stresses the fact that the main obstacle to the holy union in Transcarpathia was the failure to realize the conditions, under which the clergy had agreed to join the union.
V. UL'JANOVS'KYJ, (Kyiv), Patriarch Ignatius of Moscow
in the Bosom of the Uniate Church
(Ukrainian)
Ignatius, a native of Greece, during his mission remained in Russia, and in 1603 was appointed the Archbishop of Rjazan. Then, in 1605, he was elevated by the tsar Pseudo-Demetrius I to the dignity of Patriarch of Moscow. But, immediately after the death of his promoter (+1606), Ignatius was deposed and exiled to the Chudov Monastery. Liberated by the Polish army, in 1612, he came to Vilnius and, in the Basilian monastery of the Holy Trinity, he embraced the Holy Union. He lived there until his saintly death, in around 1620. Based upon solid documents, the author tries to safeguard the good reputation of Ignatius, since Russian historians had rejected him as a pseudo-patriarch and had eliminated his name from the list of the patriarchs of Moscow.
SOPHIA SENYK, The Ukrainian Church in the Seventeenth
Century
(English)
Describes the fate of the Ukrainian Uniate Church and the reestablishment of the Orthodox Kievan hierarchy, as well as their activity during the XVIIth century. Then, after speaking of the union of the three western eparchies, Peremysl' (1691), Lviv (1700) and Luc'k (1702), the author succinctly outlines the internal life of both Churches.
ATHANASIUS PEKAR, OSBM, Bishop Basil Popovych of Mukachevo
(on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth)
(Ukrainian)
Although the article seems to be out of place, nevertheless, it was written in defense of the uniate bishop of Mukachevo , who suffered and was slandered by the Hungarian Latin Rite hierarchy only because he tried to preserve the national and religious identity of his people. As it can be seen in the added documents, Bishop Popovych, even after his death, was a victim of unjust slander and defamation, although he was one of the greatest bishops of the Mukachevo eparchy (1838-1864).
II. DOCUMENTA
IPATIJ POTIJ, Defense of the VIII Ecumenical Council
of Florence against Recent False Publications by the Union's Adversaries.
trans. A. WELYKYJ, OSBM
(Ukrainian)
This work, by one of the main protagonists of the Union of Brest, was originally published in Old Ukrainian in Vilnius, in 1604. This work was first translated by the late father Athanasius Welykyj, OSBM and subsequently thoroughly revised by Father Porfirius Pidruchnyj, OSBM. This outstanding work is the best evidence of Metropolitan Potij's sincere and whole-hearted adherence to the Holy Union.
III. MISCELLANEA
ATHANASIUS PEKAR, OSBM, The Ecumenical Significance
of the Veneration of St. Clement, Pope of Rome, in Kievan Rus'
(Ukrainian)
ATHANASIUS PEKAR, OSBM, Metropolitan Andrew Sheptyckyj
as a Basilian Monk (on the 50th anniversary of his death)
(Ukrainian)
ATHANASIUS PEKAR, OSBM, Protohegumen Joachim Choma,
OSBM (1870-1931) on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of his
birth
(Ukrainian)
ATHANASIUS PEKAR, OSBM, The Greek Catholic Church During
the Hungarian Occupation of Transcarpathia (1939-1944) with a special
reference to Bishop A. Stoyka (+1943)
(Ukrainian)
IV. BIBLIOGRAPHIA
Works concerning the Unions of Brest and Uzhorod, taken from:
ISIDORE PATRYLO, OSBM, The Sources and Bibliography of the Ukrainian Church, Voll. I-3, 1975, 1988, 1995.
with the addition of some recent works.