Tożsamość ukraińskiej Cerkwi katolickiej w łonie Kościoła powszechnego

Abstract

The Ukrainian Catholic Orthodox Church is a Church with its own Ukrainian-Byzantine rite, i.e. a Church that is called a „particular” or „local” (pomisnist') Church by Vatican Council II. As such, it has its multisource Catholic genesis; it is neither a particle of the Kiev Church, nor the Russian Orthodox Church, nor the Latin Church. This Church has its real ecclesial character, its episcopate, autonomic identification, self-awareness, its „personality” and „name”, written down by the Holy Ghost in the history of the Ukrainian nation.