CARPATHO-RUSYN CHURCH HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS LIFE



By Bogdan Horbal ©1996 all rights reserved.
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Studies on Carpatho-Rusyn church history and religious life include most of the leading publications on this subject. Among general studies there are:


Vasylii Hadzhega (1864-1938) devoted much attention to ecclestical matters and wrote separate histories of the churches of four of the Rusyn inhabited comitats of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire:

About the Orthodox Church in the Carpathians see:

On the introduction of the Church Union with Rome, and the struggle of the Orthodox Church against it see:

On the history of the Greek-Catholic Church in the region see:

On specific issues see:

See also several documents regarding the Mukachevo diocese in Monumenta Ucrainae Historica, (vol.1-13, Rome, 1964-74) especially: vol.4 (1671-1701), vol.5 (1702-1728), vol.11, supplementum (1633-1659), vol.13 (1771-1853).

Several works are devoted to the architecture and (so often) tragic fate of Carpatho-Rusyn churches:

The Library also possesses a number of albums with reproductions of Carpatho-Rusyn icons. Among them there are:

There is also the collection of Monsignor Basil Shereghy (1918-1988), STD, an erudite priest of the Byzantine Ruthenian Metropolitan Province, which consists of 18 rare printed church books and a manuscript dating from 17th through 19th centuries. These books were published outside of Carpathian Rus' (except for a prayer book: [P]osledovannie [ot] sna vstavshi ... [Following for Those Who Just Woke up...], which was copied in Uzhhorod (17--) in Ruthenian recension of Church Slavonic), but were continuously in use in this region. The 19 items include some striking examples of printing in Church Slavonic type. Many of the books are in their original bindings, and contain important marginal notations that often document the migrations of these books through Eastern Europe and the West. One of them (Semia slova Bozhiia [Family of the God's Word], Pochaev, 1772) was once: "Ex libris Joanis Szilavay absoluti 4-i anni Theologi, 1860-o.", that is in the library of a prominent Carpatho-Rusyn author and patriot, at that time a student of theology, Rev. Ivan Silvai (1838-1904).


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