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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Union of Brest
		Brest is a city in Lithuania, with some 50,000 inhabitants, famous in the history of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of Russia for the union of the Ruthenians with Catholicism.
		Synod of Brest, at which the metropolitan and the Bishop of Vladimir assisted; it was accepted and approved, but kept secret, for reasons of prudence.
		synod at Brest, 8 October, 1596, and the union to be solemnly proclaimed.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15130a.htm (2182 words)

	Union of Brest
		Brest is a city in Lithuania, with some 50,000 inhabitants, famous in the history of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of Russia for the union of the Ruthenians with Catholicism.
		All obstacles having been removed, the union of the Rutheians with the Roman Church was solemnly and publicly proclaimed in the Hall of Constantine in the Vatican.
		The Bull recites the events which led to the union, the arrival of Pociej and Terlecki at Rome, their abjuration, and the concession to the Ruthenians that they should retain their own rite, saving such customs as were opposed to the purity of Catholic doctrine and incompatible with the communion of the Roman Church.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/u/union_of_brest.html (2058 words)

	Union of Brest
		Orthodox and Catholic ecumenists tend to label the Union of Brest as uniatism, a continuation of the invective slurs against the Church of the Kievan metropolia that had re-established communion with the See of Peter and the universal Church.
		With the fall of the Tsars in 1917 the empire became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a new prison of subjugated peoples and nations still struggling to cast off the spectre of Russian political and ecclesiastical domination even after the events of glasnost, perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet empire.
		As late as 1988 Gorbachev was still denying the existence of an underground Church in union with Rome.
	www.heartofjesus.ca /UkrainianChurch/unionofBrest.htm (2825 words)

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		Ce site Web est réalisé et géré par le Service Communication de la Ville de Brest et de Brest métropole océane, en liaison avec les services.
		Brest Brest métropole océane Kiosque Trait d'union Parcours
		Merci de nous signaler tout dysfonctionnement ou inexactitude.
	www.mairie-brest.fr /outils/ce_site.htm (98 words)

	4th Centenary of the Union of Brest, John Paul II, 12 November 1995 - Apostolic Letter
		The union was effected at the meeting of representatives of the Metropolia of Kiev with the Pope on 23 December 1595 and was solemnly proclaimed at Brest-Litovsk on the River Bug on 16 October 1596.
		The celebrations commemorating the Union of Brest must be seen in the context of the Millennium of the Baptism of the Rus'.
		The Bishops who promoted the union and the members of their Church retained a lively awareness of their original close ties to their Orthodox brethren, together with a full consciousness of the Oriental identity of their Metropolia, an identity which was also to be upheld after the union.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19951112_iv-cent-union-brest_en.html (3065 words)

	Union of Brest
		The union was effected at the meeting of representatives of the Metropolia of Kiev with the Pope on 23 December 1595 and was solemnly proclaimed at Brest-Litovsk on the River Bug on 16 October 1596.
		The celebrations commemorating the Union of Brest must be seen in the context of the Millennium of the Baptism of the Rus'.
		The celebration of the Union of Brest should be lived and interpreted in the light of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.
	www.saint-mike.org /Papal-Library/John_PaulII/Apostolic_Letters/Union_Brest.html (3275 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Union of Brest"
		Union of Brest (Belarusian: Берасьце́йская ву́нія) refers to the 1595-1596 decision of the (Ruthenian) Church of Rus', the "Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus'", to break relations with the Patriarch of Constantinople and place themselves under the (patriarch) Pope of Rome, in order to avoid the domination of the newly established Patriarch of Moscow.
		The hierarchs of the Kievan church gathered in synod in the city of Brest composed 33 articles of Union, which were accepted by the Pope of Rome.
		The union was strongly supported by the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa, but opposed by some bishops and prominent nobles of Rus', and perhaps most importantly, by the nascent Cossack (Kozak) movement for Ukrainian self-rule.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=union_of_%42rest (243 words)

	Union of Brest'— Articles of Union
		In 1996, the Ukrainian Catholic Church commemorated the 400th anniversary of its "reunion" with the Roman Catholic Church, an event known as the Union Of Brest' because it was officially proclaimed in the year 1596 in the city of Brestia on the river Buh in Volyn (Ukraine).
		The Union of Brest' was the beginning of what is sometimes called the Unia, a term which is sometimes taken to be pejorative, although more recently it has become rather simply a term of convenience.
		The act of the church union in Brestia did not come suddenly or unexpectedly, but was the fruit of many meetings and conferences for many years of all the Bishops of the Kievan Church.
	jbburnett.com /resources/union-of-brest.html (1777 words)

	Growing together in healing
		Of course the Union of Brest must be seen in the context of the millennium of the baptism of the Rus'.
		The bishops who promoted the Union and the members of their church retained a lively awareness of their original close ties to their Orthodox brethren together with a full consciousness of the oriental identity of their Metropolia, an identity which was also to be upheld after the Union.
		As Pope John Paul II has stated the celebration of the Union of Brest should be lived and interpreted in the light of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.
	www.catholic-ew.org.uk /briefing/9607/9607007.htm (1972 words)

	Teachers Union Chief Sandra Feldman
		Although she considered herself a union person through and through, the organization during her tenure considered ideas that didn't always conform to union dogma, including public charter schools and new work rules for teachers in a bid to raise the academic achievement of low-income students.
		She handled member grievances for the union, the American Federation of Teachers' largest affiliate, and was deeply involved in the city's bitter and protracted teachers strike in 1968.
		She was chosen by the union's executive council to finish Shanker's term after he died of cancer in 1997, and she was elected to three two-year terms, which she served until her retirement last year.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901675_pf.html (882 words)

	Belarusian Byzantine Catholic Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Belarusian Greek Catholic Church (Belaruskaya Hreka-Katalickaya Carkva, '''BHKC'''), popularly known as the '''Uniate Church''' and sometimes called '''Belarusian Byzantine Catholic Church''', in reference to the Byzantine Rite adopted, is the heir of the Union of Brest within the territory of Belarus.
		The Christians who, while preserving their Byzantine liturgy in the Church Slavonic language, were forced by the Union of Brest (1595-96) into full communion with the See of Rome after a few centuries of Polish persecution, were at first mainly Belarusian.
		After the Soviet Union annexed Western Belarus in 1939, an exarch for the Belarusian Byzantine-Rite faithful was appointed in May 1940, but, a mere two years later, he was arrested and taken to a Soviet concentration camp, where he died.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Belarusian_Byzantine_Catholic_Church (880 words)

	Ukrainian Uniate Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Ukrainian Uniate Church recognises the primacy of the see of Rome but retains its own eastern traditions, for example allowing its clergy to marry.
		The Ukrainian Uniate Church was established in 1596 by the Union of Brest-Litovsk.
		This permitted Orthodox clergymen to continue observing the eastern rite while transferring their allegiance to the pope.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/east/uuc.html (159 words)

	Peeters Online Journals
		In the late sixteenth century union between the Ruthenian Church and the Roman Church was commonly discussed within the metropolitan province of Kiev.
		At the initiative of the Ruthenian Hierarchy this union was concluded in Rome, December 1595.
		The Synod of Brest ratified the Union in October 1596.
	poj.peeters-leuven.be /content.php?url=article&id=2003123 (109 words)

	Belarus (01/07)
		Belarus was the site of the Union of Brest in 1597, which created the Greek Catholic Church, for long the majority church in Belarus until suppressed by the Russian empire, and the birthplace of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, who played a key role in the American Revolution.
		Once it became clear that the unions and the FTUB were adjusting to this change, the government in June of 2002 embarked on a takeover of the FTUB and several of its branch unions.
		The framework for the Russia-Belarusian Union was set out in the Treaty on the Formation of a Community of Russia and Belarus (1996), the Treaty on Russia-Belarus Union, the Union Charter (1997), and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State (1999).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5371.htm (6046 words)

	Tabibito's Eastern Europe Website: Brest, the frontier town in Western Belarus
		Location: Brest is the westernmost town of the →Belarus (White Russia) and stretches along the border to Poland.
		Around Brest, the river Bug (to be exactly the Western Bug) forms the boundary between the Belarus and →Poland, i.e.
		In 1596, the Union of Brest was sealed - a large group of orthodox Christians acknowledged the pope and therefore bridged the gap between the orthodox East and catholic Poland.
	www.tabibito.de /vostok/ebrest.shtml (2943 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Union of Brest
		The decision of the (Ruthenian) Church of Rus', the "Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus'", to break relations with the Patriarch of Constantinople and place themselves under the (patriarch) Pope of Rome in 1595-1596 is termed the Union of Brest (Belarusian: Берасьце́йская ву́нія).
		The union was opposed by some bishops and prominent nobles of Rus', and perhaps most importantly, by the nascent Cossack (Kozak) movement for Ukrainian self-rule.
		The result was "Rus' fighting against Rus'," and the splitting of the Church of Rus' into Greek Catholic (also known as Uniate) and Greek Orthodox jurisdictions.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Union_of_Brest (304 words)

	Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of ...
		Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest
		The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest.
		He makes the important point that the Ruthenian bishops regarded their planned union with Rome as an act of reunification of a local church with the Apostolic see, whereas "the papacy considered the union to be a conversion and incorporation of a schismatic body of individual bishops, clergy and faithful" (p.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200009/ai_n8918160 (754 words)

	Brest'-Litovsk 1596: The "Unia" makes us strong? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Athanasius was glorified a Saint and Venerable Martyr of the Orthodox Church.
		The sad episodes of the Union is also a reminder about the fact that true Church unity is a matter of the heart and inner conversion.
		It is my view that by cancelling the Union as a model of unification, the Roman Catholic Church has also, in theory at least, cancelled the underlying principles on which the existing Greek Catholic Churches are based.
	www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/articles/alex_roman/brest.htm (1274 words)

	Union of Brest - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The decision of the (ruthenian) Church of Rus', the "Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus'", to break relations with the Patriarch_of_Constantinople and place themselves under the (patriarch) Pope of Rome in 1595-1596 is termed the ''Union of Brest''.
		The hierarchs of the Kievan church gathered in synod in the city of Brest (Litovsk) composed 33 articles of Union, which were accepted by the Pope of Rome.
		The result was "Rus' fighting against Rus'," and the splitting of the Church of Rus' into Greek_Catholic (Uniate) and Greek_Orthodox jurisdictions.
	www.indexsuche.com /Union_of_Brest.html (178 words)

	Russia, CIS, Brest Accords
		The blame for all the problems current leaders are unable to solve is laid at the door of Stanislaw Shushkevich because 10 years ago he brought the Republic of Belarus to the path of democratic development.
		Together with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, he declared the end of "the great and powerful" [Soviet Union, as described in the USSR national anthem], and gave all the former Soviet republics an opportunity to come together in a new economic community, the Commonwealth of Independent States.
		On the eve of the jubilee, a Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta correspondent met Stanislaw Shushkevich.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5595-11.cfm (1174 words)

	Shevchenko Scientific Society conference focuses on Union of Brest (11/03/96)
		TORONTO - With a one-day conference held at the University of Toronto Sanford Fleming Building on September 12, the Canadian chapter of the Shevchenko Scientific Society commemorated the 400th anniversary of the Union of Brest and the 350th anniversary of the Union of Uzhhorod.
		Monchak, who stressed that it was "an agreement, not a declaration of submission." The Montreal-based Church historian likened the Union of Brest to the Treaty of Pereiaslav, signed by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and representatives of Tsar Aleksei of Muscovy in 1654, which the latter used to subvert the autonomy of his weaker partner.
		Monchak said the papal bull proclaiming the union (which was issued a full 10 months prior to the sobor in Brest, in December 1595), dropped the various preconditions agreed upon from the text.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1996/449607.shtml (1082 words)

	SEND International Christian World Missions
		With the Union of Brest-Litovsk in 1596 the Ukrainian Catholic Church, known as the Ukrainian Uniate Church, was born.
		Peter Borisovich Konovalchik, former president of the Baptist Union of Russia, said, "Everywhere I go in Russia, I find churches started by Ukrainians." One way God's unique work in Ukraine reveals itself is in the growth of the church.
		The most significant need of the evangelical church in the former Soviet Union is the training of pastors and leaders for these new local churches.
	www.send.org /ukraine (527 words)

	Ukraine.com Discussion Forum - View Single Post - What did the Church Union of Brest 1596 mean for Rus/Ukraine and its ...
		Yet, the idea of the religious tolerance and multiculturalism within the Commonwealth was very vivid and significant (prior to the Union of Brest).
		For example (as related by a Welsh historian - N.Davies in 'God's Playground'), even after the Union of Brest, the purely Orthodox Ruthenian/Ukrainian Prince - Ostrogski married a lady of the Tarnowski Famiy, who was a devout Catholic.
		No, I do not think the Union of Brest was a grand idea since there was a breach of trust between the Crown and the Orthodox Church.
	www.ukraine.com /forums/49515-post12.html (551 words)

	The History of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine: Movement for unification of the Churches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Union of Florence 1439 signalled a temporary reconciliation which was approved by both the Pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople.
		From 1458 until the Union of Brest (Brzesc) 1596 the lands belonging to the Kyivan metropolitanate coincided with the borders of the dynastically linked states of Poland and Lithuania.
		The constitution promulgated by Pope Clement VIII Magnus Dominus confirmed the decision of the Kyivan Metropolitan Mikhail ROHOZA to unite the Kyivan Orthodox metropolitanate with the Catholic Church in the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
	www.rkc.lviv.ua /Cx1I.php3?I=o&L=e (763 words)

	Top Literature - Union of Brest
		At the time, this church included most Ukrainians and Belarusians, under the rule of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
		The union was strongly supported by the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund III Vasa, but opposed by some bishops and prominent nobles of Rus', and perhaps most importantly, by the nascent Cossack (Kozak) movement for Ukrainian self-rule.
		The result was "Rus' fighting against Rus'," and the splitting of the Church of Rus' into Greek Catholic (also known as Uniate [although this term is generally viewed as a derogative one by Catholics] or sui juris church) and Greek Orthodox jurisdictions.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Union_of_Brest (205 words)

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	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-09/28/content_378293.htm (639 words)

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