Gregorian chant at Our Lady of Protection Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church

Posted by Martin Hutchinson on December 18, 2005, 02:39 AM | #

Other way round, JJR; the Byzantine Catholics were churches of the Byzantine rite who did not join in the schism with Rome in 1054.  Kyiv was alreadty a major Christian center by then; I would guess (but do not know) that the Kyiv church probably split, some going with Byzantium, some switching to Rome.

I agree Byzantine Catholic churches are nice; there was a very nice such Ukranian rite Church in Zagreb when I was there, at which we attended Christmas service in 1998.

Posted by Vlad on December 18, 2005, 10:42 AM | #

Other way round, JJR; the Byzantine Catholics were churches of the Byzantine rite who did not join in the schism with Rome in 1054. 

JJR is right. There were no churches of the Byzantine rite who did not join the schism with Rome in 1054.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church dates to 1596.

http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/ugcc_history/history/

That is when the Ukrainian Catholics transferred the allegiance from the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Bishop of Rome. It is from that time that the Ukrainian Catholics are in schism with the Orthodox Church.

Posted by Alexei on December 19, 2005, 07:06 AM | #

Martin, Kyiv/Kiev churches did not split in 1054. (Not that 1054 was a major event: by denouncing eath other, Rome and Constantinople formally endorsed a split already existing. Nor did Constantinople split from Rome, having never recognized the Pope as anything more than the first among equals.) No churches I know of switched loyalties at that time. In 1596, the majority of Orthodox bishops in the part of Poland that would later become Ukraine, defected from Constantinople and signed the so-called Union (Unia) with Rome, giving birth to the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church.

It was not the first Byzantine Rite Catholic Church, though—recall the Lebanese Maronites.

Posted by Alexei on December 19, 2005, 07:11 AM | #

Also, the majority of Ukrainians who died in the Great Famine were most likely Orthodox. Western Ukraine, where Greek Catholics dominated, was part of Poland then. Its turn to suffer came in 1939, when the USSR annexed Western Ukraine and Western Belarus.

Posted by Martin Hutchinson on December 19, 2005, 01:19 PM | #

Thanks for correcting me; we live and learn. Presumably as of 1596 there weren’t a lot of Byzantine Rite churches outside Muscovy, because of the Ottoman expansion.

Posted by Alexei on December 19, 2005, 02:16 PM | #

Martin, there weren’t many but there were some: the Maronites recognized (or were forced to recognize) Roman primacy in the 12th century during the Crusades and preserved their faith under Ottoman rule. In 1724, some of the Melkites (Orthodox Arabs, as opposed to non-Chalcedonian Arab Christians) entered into a union with Rome, the Ottoman empire still controlling the Middle East.

BTW, I’ve just discovered that Paul Weyrich, a co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and a prominent US conservative, is a proto-deacon at the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

Posted by Jack Ho on February 23, 2006, 03:24 AM | #

Dear all,

I’m not here to discuss the Byzantine Rite. I’m a Liturgist, but that’s not why I’m here! By the way… the panel you saw is not the “rude screen”!

As Director’s Assistant of Schola Cantorum of Brisbane, the Gregorian Chant Choir mentioned in the origional text. I invite you all to visit our website http://www.scholacantorumbrisbane.com

Cheers!
Jack

Posted by Al Khaliffah on April 18, 2006, 04:03 PM | #

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Posted by bollt on June 15, 2009, 03:04 PM | #

I think the focal point of mainstream religion has changed - http://www.ebook-search-queen.com/ebook/reli/religion+and+ethics.all.html .That’s part of the “see the world in black and white” that the fundamentalists find so important about their “my way or the highway to hell”. Its far easier to use religion as the label for making oneself feel better or more important than someone else. I don’t murder, so I’m better/God loves me more than someone who does.

Posted by blaksea on August 11, 2009, 11:18 AM | #

i read this article out of an interest in gregorian chant. Howerver, the narrow minded, unintelligent comments of the author jonjayray were the main focus of the blog. unfortunately for jonjayray, his “considerable knowledge” dosen’t extend to the muslim faith. I have many muslim and christian friends and would like to let anyone know who dosen’t already, that both creeds share the “love your neighbour” view and in many ways are very similar. my advice to jonjayray is leave your preconceptions behind and get on the level with PEOPLE as individuals not as the racist stereotypes presented through the media for political reasons. you might find that people would rather share a smile than an unfounded insult.