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    for opposition to the Union of Brest. Athanasius is commemorated on September 5 by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Athanasius Filipovich was born to a petty...
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  • Athanasius VI bar Khamoro (died 1129), Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1091 until his death Pope Athanasius III of Alexandria...
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    Martyrdom of the Holy passion-bearer Gleb of Russia, in holy baptism David (1015) Martyrdom of Venerable Athanasius of Brest, Abbot, of Brest, by the Latins...
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    The Union of Brest took place in 1595–1596 and represented an agreement by Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Ruthenian portions of the Polish–Lithuanian...
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    death[citation needed] Artemius of Verkola, 16th-century child saint whose body showed no sign of decay[citation needed] Athanasius of Brest, martyr[citation needed]...
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    primarily the modern Brest Region of Belarus. Located along the western Bug. Other names for Beresteishchyna include Brest Land, Brest Volost, Berestiyshchyna...
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    St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jabłeczna (category History of Eastern Orthodoxy)
    monastery became a significant center of Orthodox worship in Chełm Land. After the Union of Brest, the monks of Jabłeczna refused to accept its provisions...
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    future Orthodox saint and strong opponent of the Union, Athanasius of Brest, was a monk there. It was one of two monasteries in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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    Icon of the Mother of God "Abalatsk" ("Sign") (1637) (see also: November 27) Uncovering of the relics (1649) of Hieromartyr Athanasius of Brest, Hegumen...
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    Peter Arkoudios (category Year of birth uncertain)
    scholar of the 17th century and a Roman Catholic priest. Born in Corfu in 1562/1563, Arkoudios studied at the Greek Pontifical College of Saint Athanasius in...
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    openly embraced the Union of Brest (1596). Construction of the present Cathedral was started in 1746 by Metropolitan Athanasius Szeptycki and finished in...
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    Felicjan Filip Wołodkowicz (category Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    "Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia" On 1731 Wolodkowicz was ordained by Primate of the Uniate church Athanasius Szeptycki as a bishop of Chełm....
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    Joakym Morokhovskyj (category Bishops of the Ruthenian Uniate Church)
    a Greek-Catholic Bishop of Volodymyr–Brest from 1613 to 1631. He studied at the Pontifical Greek College of Saint Athanasius in Rome and then served as...
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    terms of the Union of Brest, the Ruthenian church was transferred from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to...
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  • Commonwealth in 1595/96 following the Union of Brest. It was effectively disestablished by the partitions of Poland (1772–1795). Its successor — the Ukrainian...
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    Athanasius (1729–1746) Florian (1748–1762) Felicjan (1762–1778) Leo III (1778–1779) Jason (1780–1786) Theodosius (1787–1805) Upon the partitions of Poland...
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    of Brest. Up until World War II and the Holocaust, Mukachevo was primarily a Jewish town, and half the population was Jewish (see below), the rest of...
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    Athanasius, De Decretis or Defence of the Nicene Definition Archived 13 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine "Line-by-Line Roman Catholic Explanation of the...
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    Meletius Pegas, Patriarch of Alexandria, to lead the Orthodox opposition to the Union of Brest-Litovsk, which proposed a union of Kiev with Rome. For six...
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  • territory of his kingdom. Leo died in 1301 but his son—Yuri I of Galicia—succeeded in securing the charter of establishment from Patriarch Athanasius I of Constantinople...
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    Joseph Velamin-Rutski (category Pontifical Greek College of Saint Athanasius alumni)
    build the Greek Catholic Church in the first few decades after the Union of Brest of 1596; he also reformed the Basilian monks. Joseph Velyaminov-Rutski (father...
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    Ruthenian Uniate Church (category History of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
    subscribed to the Union of Brest. In the process, they switched their allegiances and jurisdiction from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the...
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  • brother Athanasius as the Bishop of Lutsk. As a result, in 1684 the king demanded that the incumbent bishop — Gedeon Chetvertinsky — accept the Union of Brest...
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  • governed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in Kievan Rus'. Following the Council of Florence and the Union of Brest, there are now parallel apostolic...
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    confirmed by the Council of Laodicea in 363 (both lacked the Book of Revelation), and later established by Athanasius of Alexandria in 367 (with Revelation...
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    History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns. Budapest-New York: Central European University Press. ISBN 9786155053467. Pekar, Athanasius B. (1979)...
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  • Lev Zalenskyj (category Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    Archimandrite of the Zhyrovichy Monastery. The bishop of Volodymyr-Brest, Benedict Glynskij, who was Zalenskyj's uncle by the side of his mother, before...
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    seat of the Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus' was moved to Moscow, see List of metropolitans and patriarchs of Kyiv. Isidore of Kiev, who was of Greek...
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    The primate of the ROC is the patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'. The Christianization of Kievan Rus' commenced in 988 with the baptism of Vladimir the...
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    while the saint, such as Athanasius' Anthony (one of the original sources for the hagiographic motif) or the character of Guthlac, battles against figures...
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