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All Journal [5] Monographs [14]

Sources from Church History [2] Materials from conferences [4] "Christian Ukraine" series [1]

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Kovcheh. A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 5

Kovcheh. A Scholarly Journal of Church History / editors: Fr. Borys Gudziak, Ihor Skochylyas, Oleh Turij. - Volume 5, Lviv: «Misioner» Publishing Interpride 2007. - viii+452 p. ISBN 978-966-658-098-9

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The Ark («Kovcheh»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History, Volume 4

The Ark («Kovcheh»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History, Volume 4, Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press, 2003. - 339 c. ISBN 966-7034-42-9 The main theme of the annual The Ark for 2004 is demonstrated by materials from the international scholarly conference «Confessional Identity and National Involvement: Greek Catholic Churches of Central-Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.» This conference was held on 15-19 May 2002 in Lviv and was organized by the Centre for the History and Culture of Eastern Central Europe (Leipzig) and the Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy (now Ukrainian Catholic University). The conference gathered scholars representing nearly all the Greek Catholic churches of the region and Roman Catholic and Orthodox scholars at the same table, probably for the first time.

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The Ark («Kovcheh»), A Scholarly Journal of Church History, volume 3, Lviv 2002. - 576 p.

The Institute of Church History and the Ukrainian Committee on Comparative Church History continue publishing their periodical organ in a renewed format. Volume 3 (for year 2001) was printed in 2002. It includes translations and original research, results of scholarly projects of the Institute of Church History, texts of speeches delivered at seminars and guest lectures held by the Institute, publications of original sources and materials of discussions connected with the activities of the Kyivan Church Study Group, and also reviews of church history books. The mission of The Ark is to become a forum for the exchange of ideas, constructive criticism and creative cooperation between separate institutions and scholars at the international and ecumenical levels. The Ark should facilitate research and rethinking of the history of Christianity in Ukraine within the context of the historical experience of Universal Christianity. The Ark also aims at overcoming stereotypes in the historiography of various denominations and anticlerical propaganda, creating a spirit of tolerance and mutual respect as essential factors of all-Christian reconciliation and unity.

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Kovcheh (“The Ark.”) A Scholarly Journal of Church History, volume 2

Kovcheh (“The Ark.”) A Scholarly Journal of Church History, volume 2. Lviv 2000. 519 p. ISBN 966-7034-19-4

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Kovcheh (“The Ark”). A Scholarly Journal of Church History, volume 1

Kovcheh (“The Ark”). A Scholarly Journal of Church History, volume 1. Lviv 1993. 189 p. ISBN 5-87274-044-1

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Skochylyas Ihor. Religion and Culture of Western Volhynia in the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century.

Skochylyas Ihor. Religion and Culture of Western Volhynia in the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century. Based on the Materials of the Volodymyr's Synod of the Year 1715. - Lviv, 2008. - 80 p. ISBN 978-966-02-4707-9 Research was conducted on the analysis of the remarkable source «Synodus Dioecesana Vladimiriensis» - a collection of acts from the Eparchial Synod held in the bishopric see of Volodymyr on October 13-15, 1715. This collection includes, among other documentations, «Acts» and constitutions of the Synod, and the Regulation of the Volodymyr eparchial seminary, - the oldest extant program of the confessionalization of theological studies in the Uniates educational institutions.

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Harnoncourt, Philipp. Gott feiern in versЪhnter Verschiedenheit. AufsКtze zur Liturgie, zur SpiritualitКt und zur Еkumene.

Harnoncourt, Philipp. Gott feiern in versЪhnter Verschiedenheit. AufsКtze zur Liturgie, zur SpiritualitКt und zur Еkumene. L'viv/Lemberg: SVICADO, 2004. - 252 S. ISBN 966-561-363-4 Verlag Herder Freiburg im Breisgau 2005. ISBN 3-451 -28924-5

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Skochylyas Ihor. Visitationes generales metropoliae Kioviensis unitae XVII-XVIII saeculorum: diocesia Leopoliensis, Haliciensis et Camenecensis. Volumen 2: Acta visitationum generalium.

Skochylyas Ihor. Visitationes generales metropoliae Kioviensis unitae XVII-XVIII saeculorum: diocesia Leopoliensis, Haliciensis et Camenecensis. Volumen 2: Acta visitationum generalium. Leopoli, 2004. ccviii+512 c. ISBN 966-7034-5 The second volume of the book by Ihor Skochylyas focuses on the protocols of general visitation of Lviv Eparchy in the XVIII century, which testify to pastoral ministries of bishops of Kyiv Uniate Metropolitanate.

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Church of the Martyrs

Church of the Martyrs. General ed. Oleh Turij. Lviv: «Svichado» 2004. - 54 p. ISBN 966-561-345-6

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Fr. Ernst Christoph Suttner, Ukrainian Christianity at the Beginning of the Third Millenium: Historical Experience and Ecclesiastical Perspectives.

Fr. Ernst Christoph Suttner, Ukrainian Christianity at the Beginning of the Third Millenium: Historical Experience and Ecclesiastical Perspectives. Lviv: the Studite Monastery. Svichado Publishers 2001. - 168 p. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-561-238-7 The volume is composed of Suttner's writings on ecclesiastical and ecumenical aspects of the historical development, contemporary state and future objectives of the Christian Church in Ukraine. These are: Ukrainian Christianity on the Road to the Third Millenium; The Union of Brest: Unity or Separation of the Church?; Austria's Policy on the Greek Catholic Church in Galicia; The Catholic Church in the Soviet Union. These compiled writings present the author as a man who has known Ukraine for a long time. He displays a keen interest in Ukraine's historical experience and contemporary Church life. He shares his views with others and thereby influences the formation of Christian Ukraine beyond its borders. Professor Suttner is a permanent member of the Joint International Committee on Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the National Orthodox Churches The author shows respect for the authentic Ukrainian spiritual heritage and treats it as an important, integral part of world religious culture. He pays close attention to the relationship between church and state, different confessions and peoples in the past and in the present, when universal Christianity has entered the third millennium of its history. The Ukrainian translation from German, scholarly editing and foreword is by Dr. Oleh Turii, assistant director of the Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy. The publication of this book was made possible by the charitable fund Renovabis, demonstrating solidarity between German Catholics and the Christians of Central and Eastern Europe.

Ihor Sevcenko. Ukraine between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century

Ihor Sevcenko, Ukraine between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century / Authorized translation from English by Maria Hablevych; editor Andrii Yasinovskyi. Lviv 2001. - XIX + 250 p., 5 maps [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-7034-22-4 The book is mainly composed of lectures delivered by the author from 1970 to 1974 at Harvard University. It includes 12 essays ranging from the very beginning of Christianity in Kyivan Rus to the early 18th century. Seven of them had already been published in various journals and scholarly collections. Other essays are being published for the first time. In the first essay the author focuses his attention on those peculiarities of the cultural development of Ukraine that were only accessible in the original sources. The second essay argues that the Christianization of the Slavs was one of the most successful missions of Byzantium. Drawing on the investigations of other scholars and his own findings, Sevcenko has created a remarkable periodization and classification of Byzantium's religious missions. Another essay shows that the period from the middle of the 15th century to the end of the 17th century was the epoch of the «de-Byzantinization» of Eastern Europe. The cultural conditions of the Rusyns as a result of the expansion of the Polish state to the East are evaluated in the essay «Poland in Ukrainian History». In the next three essays the author discusses the mentality prevalent in modern Ukrainian and Belarusian territories. The last essay tells of the rise of separate linguistic, cultural and, in a sense, political societies.

Fr. Laslo Pushkash, Theodore Romzha: Life and Death of a Bishop

Fr. Laslo Pushkash, Theodore Romzha: Life and Death of a Bishop. Lviv 2001. - 244 p. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-7034-21-6 This biography of the bishop of the Mukachivo Greek Catholic eparchy is based upon a variety of sources, primarily on the reminiscences of contemporaries. The author treats his life as an integral part of the history of the Greek Catholic Church in Transcarpathia. Romzha headed the eparchy in the most critical period, when the Soviet authorities tried to eliminate the Union by means of prohibitions and brutal repressions. The author talks in detail about the formation of Bishop Romzha's personality, his spiritual development, his ministry as a priest in the villages of Verkhovyna and his teaching at the Uzhhorod seminary.

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Ukrainian translation of Fr. Borys Gudziak's. Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest, Cambridge (Mass.) 1998.

Gudziak, Borys A. Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest. Translated from English by Maria Hablevych, ed. by Oleh Turii. Lviv: Institute of Church History of Lviv Theological Academy 2000. - xvi + 426 p. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-7034-17-8 "Crisis and Reform" explains and reevaluates one of the most controversial events in Slavic church history, the Union of Brest (1596), through which the majority of the Ruthenian hierarchy recognized the supremacy of the pope in Rome while retaining its Slavonic- Byzantine liturgical tradition and ethos. Dr. Gudziak analyzes the movement of spiritual and cultural reform in the Kyivan Metropolitanate in light of its traditional relationship with the Great Church in Constantinople and in the face of the vibrant challenges presented by the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reform movements flourishing in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the broader European context. He demonstrates how the dilemmas within Ruthenian society, coupled with the consequences of the journey to Russia of Patriarch Jeremiah of Constantin ople (1588-89)-during which he was forced to create the Patriarchate of Moscow and then instituted far-reaching reforms in the Kyivan Metropolitanate-led to the initiative of the Ruthenian hierarchy to move away from the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Crisis and Reform provides an excellent overview of ecclesiastical structures in Eastern Slavic lands from their Christianization to the late sixteenth century and surveys interconfessional relations in Poland and Lithuania before and during the age of Reforms. It also presents an original and nuanced analysis of the relationship of the Slavic East with the Greek Orthodox world after the fall of Byzantium to the Ottomans (1453).

Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Greek Catholics in Russia, Volume 1: Documents and Materials, 1899-1917

Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Greek Catholics in Russia, Volume 1: Documents and Materials, 1899-1917/ compiled by J. Avvakumov, O. Hajova. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press 2004. - xlix + 924 p. ISBN 966-7034-49-6 This collective work presents results of the first part of the research project about Metropolitan Andrey (Sheptytsky) and Russian Greek-Catholics. Published documents show the fundamental questions of Eastern rite Catholics' consciousnes and identity, as well as at the ecumenical aspects of Sheptytsky's activities in Russia.

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The Main Ruthenian Council (1848-1851): Minutes of the Sessions and Book of Correspondence

Edited by O. Turii, compiled by U. Kryshtalovych and I. Svarnyk. Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Ukrainian Catholic University, 2002. - XXXIV + 270 p. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-7034-34-8 This collection includes the foundational documents of the Main Ruthenian Council, the first Ukrainian national-political organization, created in Halychyna at the initiative of and under the direction of the Greek Catholic hierarchy at the time of the revolutionary European uprisings of 1848. The whole spectrum of the multi-sided activities of this institution are reflected in the minutes of the sessions and the book of correspondence: the condition of its structure, the working-out of its ideology and forms of political struggle, the establishment of the first Ukrainian periodical and other cultural-educational initiatives, attempts at "Ukrainianization" of the administration, primary education, and the creation of the first Ukrainian military formations, defense of the rights of villagers, and securing religious equality.

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The Union of Brest and Internal Church Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Fourth “Brest Lectures”

The Union of Brest and Internal Church Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Fourth “Brest Lectures.” Lviv, Lutsk, Kyiv, October 2-6, 1995 / Editors: Borys Gudziak, Oleh Turii. – Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy, 1997. – x +155 pp. ISBN 996-7034-03-8

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The Union of Brest and Ukrainian Culture in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Third “Brest Lectures”

The Union of Brest and Ukrainian Culture in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Third “Brest Lectures.” Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, June 20-23, 1995. / Editors: Borys Gudziak, Oleh Turii. – Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy, 1996. – x +185 pp. ISBN 5-7707-9328-7

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State, Society and Church in Ukraine in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Second “Brest Lectures”

State, Society and Church in Ukraine in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Second “Brest Lectures.” Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, February 1-6, 1995. / Editors: Borys Gudziak, Oleh Turii. – Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy, 1996. – x +197 pp. ISBN 5-7707-9327-9

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The Historical Context, the Signing of the Union of Brest, and the First Post-Union Generation. The Materials of the First “Brest Lectures”

The Historical Context, the Signing of the Union of Brest and the First Post-Union Generation. The Materials of the First “Brest Lectures.” Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, October 1-5, 1994. / Editors: Borys Gudziak, Oleh Turii. – Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy, 1995. – x +188 pp. ISBN 5-7707-8216-1

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Series «Christian Ukraine»

Borys А. Gudziak. Institute of Church History Lviv Theological Academy. Lviv 2001 [= Christian Ukraine 3]. - 20 с. Borys A. Gudziak. Ukrainian Religious Life During the First Five Years of Independence. Lviv 2001 [= Christian Ukraine 5]. - 28 с. Oleh Turij. Greek Catholics, Latins and Orthodox in Ukraine: Who's Who? Lviv 2001 [= Christian Ukraine 8]. - 16 с. Oleh Turij. Griechisch-katholiken, lateiner und orthodoxe in der Ukraine: gegeneinander, nebeneinander oder miteinander? Lviv 2001 [= Christian Ukraine 9]. - 16 с. Оlеh Turij. Das religioese Leben und die zwischenkonfessionellen Verhaeltnisse in der unabhaengigen Ukraine. Lviv 2007 [= Christian Ukraine 12]. - 40 с.

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