Ruthenian Church(805 words)
In the Western European states of Poland-Lithuania and the Habsburg Monarchy, the local Eastern Slavs were called Ruthenians, from the Eastern Slavonic endonym Rusiny. After the 19th-century processes of nation building, the Ruthenians were absorbed into the various newly created nation-states (Nation, nationalism). Ecclesiastically, until the mid-20th century, the term denoted the Greek Catholic (“Uniate”) churches in these territories (Unions, ecclesiastical). Today it denotes the Greek Catholic church in Ukrainian Transcarpathia.
In the Orthodox churches in the P…
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Bremer, Thomas,
“Ruthenian Church”, in:
Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online, Editors of the English edition: Graeme Dunphy, Andrew Gow. Original German Edition: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. Im Auftrag des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts (Essen) und in Verbindung mit den Fachherausgebern herausgegeben von Friedrich Jaeger. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2005–2012.
Consulted online on 29 May 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2352-0272_emho_SIM_026879>
First published online: 2015
First print edition: 20210601
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