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550:, ordered by Popel in October 1873. Initially, it was ignored by many priests, until the Russian state ordered them to sign a declaration that they would abide by the new rules by the New Year of 1874. Over twenty priests refused, and were either arrested or escaped to Galicia. Resistance to the changes was widespread among the Laity, particularly in the northern areas of the eparchy. In numerous parishes, the priests attempting to implement the reforms were dragged out of the church or their belongings were packed outside the rectory. Russian police Constables and 1035: 24: 2086: 373: 2546: 2074: 502:. These Pro-Tsarist clergymen were often intensely disliked by the population of Chełm, and petitions by the laity to the last Greek Catholic Bishop often referred to them as, "Galician wolves". These Russophile Galician priests would play a major role in the forced conversion of the Chełm Eparchy. 317:, often with extremely disastrous results. Meanwhile, the elevation of the Metropolitan See of Moscow to a Patriarchate in 1588 enraged many Orthodox Ukrainians, who saw the move as an insult to the seniority of the See of Kyiv. Meanwhile, the religious and cultural revival caused by the 660:
which finally allowed Orthodox Christians to legally convert to other religions, 170,000 out of the 450,000 Orthodox in the former Chełm Eparchy had returned to Catholicism by 1908, despite the Russian Government only grudgingly allowing conversion to Catholicism of the
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The "purification" having been completed by the end of 1874, from January and May 1875, all of the parishes officially proclaimed their union with the Orthodox Church. The Eparchy was dissolved and incorporated into the newly created Orthodox eparchy of Chełm and
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residence in Chełm. During the struggle over purification and forced conversion, a total of 600 faithful were deported to Siberia and 108 lost their lives. Sixty-six native Chełm priests who refused to convert to Orthodoxy fled to Galicia, 74 were exiled to
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that lasted from the seventeenth through the end of the eighteenth centuries, the Greek Catholic Church was deliberately incorporated into the State-controlled Russian Orthodox Church. In 1839, as part of the Tsarist crackdown following the defeat of the
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The longevity of Byzantine Catholicism in this region was attributed to several factors. The eparchy's territory came under Russian control later than did any other Greek Catholic territories ultimately absorbed by Russia (1815 unlike 1795). During the
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was abolished. After having struggled with Tsarist authorities, Greek Catholic Bishop Mikhail Kuzemsky issued a letter of resignation and left Chełm. Even though the Bishop's resignation was rejected by the
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were used to force the parishioners to accept the de-Latinised Rites; and parishioners who refused to agree were routinely beaten or shot. The struggle has often been compared to that of the
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of all minorities by the State. According to Tomaszewski and Gil some of the Ukrainians opposed the conversions and Polonization. After World War II, Chełm was retained by the
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In Galicia, the forced conversion of Chełm was met with support on the part of the Russophiles and indifference among other segments of the
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of Galicia had been completely Polonized for centuries and was widely disliked. Many Ukrainian intellectuals in Galicia were accordingly
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or imprisoned, and seven died as martyrs. Chełm eparchy was purged in the process of most of its native priests, who were replaced by
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did it become part of Russia. Also, unlike other Greek Catholic regions within the Russian Empire, it had been part of the autonomous
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Despite their opposition to Tsarism, Orthodoxy, and local Russophiles, many Galician Ukrainophiles were equally opposed to
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drew admiration from many Orthodox priests, who began to consider a transfer of allegiance from the Ottoman-controlled
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to such an extreme that they even looked down upon ethnic Poles who were fellow Byzantine Catholics experiencing both
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Meanwhile, the local unpopularity of the forced conversion was strong enough that, a generation later, following the
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were widely considered a matter of national pride, and all attempts to curtail their use were widely ignored.
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between the Roman and Byzantine Churches, the form of Christianity that Kievan Rus followed became known as
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By the end of the 1860s, political circumstances had changed. Following the defeat of the 1865
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in 1795, it was granted to Austria. Only two decades later, after the Russian victory in the
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Forced conversion to Orthodoxy was preceded by the "purification" the Chełm eparchy of all
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and, by irony, today it is a strong centre for the non-Galician Ukrainian culture and the
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of Chełm's Greek Catholic parishioners and clergy, during the mid-nineteenth century the
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Galician Greek Catholic priests with Tsarist sympathies were routinely recruited by
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gained the territories along its western frontier through a series of wars and
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and felt contempt for those who wished to preserve them. Furthermore, as the
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Trapped between two churches: Orthodox and Greek-Catholics in eastern Poland
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and the religious conversion of the non-Eastern Orthodox population.
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the Orthodox confiscation of their parish church in the village of
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on October 6, 1996. In 1998, their relics were transferred to the
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chose, following careful investigation, to submit a cause for the
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from obtaining positions in Galicia's Greek Catholic parishes.
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that took place between January and May 1875. It was the last
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disturbingly similar to that imposed upon Tsarist ruled
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1875 forced conversion of the Eparchy of Chełm–Belz
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Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
History of Christianity in Ukraine
Eastern Catholic Churches
Ruthenian Uniate Church
Union of Brest
Metropolitan See
Kyiv
Lemberg
Synod of Polotsk
Conversion of Chełm Eparchy
First diaspora bishop
Synod of Lviv
Council for Religious Affairs
Anti-Catholicism in the Soviet Union
Eastern Catholic victims of Soviet persecutions
Major Archbishop
Lviv
Kyiv
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forced conversion
Eparchy of Chełm–Belz
eparchy
Ruthenian Uniate Church
Russian Empire
partitions of Poland
episcopal seat
Chełm

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