Uniates

The Eastern-rite Catholics who are called "Uniates" -- are they more a problem or a solution, ecumenically speaking?

Challenges of Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue Argent 2006

Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky, 77, the spiritual leader of 5 million Ukrainian Catholics (known as Uniates), returned after 52 years in exile in Rome.

1991, Feb. 12 2001

Established Church has set up a section of these Raskolniks in union with it, but has permitted them to keep all their peculiar practices, and these are called the Yedinovertsi or "Uniates".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Here the inhabitants spoke Polish, Ukrainian and Yiddish, and were either Catholics, Uniates (Orthodox Christians who followed the Pope in Rome) or Jews.

Habsburg Monarchy: Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries. 2009

But one grave risk in this ecumenism is the apparent betrayal of the Eastern Catholics, best known in the West as "Uniates."

Looking Eastward? 2007

But one grave risk in this ecumenism is the apparent betrayal of the Eastern Catholics, best known in the West as "Uniates."

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Uniates (who acknowledge the Pope of Rome), and who have the Greek religion enforced on them.

Resurrection 2003

(Similarly, the far more numerous, historically more important, and — from Nicholas I to Stalin — more devastatingly persecuted Uniates were relegated to a mere footnote.)

Poland's Past Kasparek, Jozef 1984

Toward the famous Uniates of Poland, created by Rome to suborn the Orthodox, they were ambivalent; just as the good Catholics of Spain found it difficult to accept wholeheartedly Jews who converted,

Poland Michener, James 1983

Polish Catholicsalways suspected the turncoat Uniates.

Poland Michener, James 1983