Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- The ‘Lviv Sobor’ of 1946: Perspectives on and Challenges to a Common Narrative / Adam DeVille -- Lviv and the Longue Durée : Ecclesial History in Ukraine from the Union of Brest to the Sobor of Lviv / Frank E. Sysyn -- Soviet Political Religion / Cyril Hovorun -- The Lviv Council of 1946 as Reflected by the Church Press of the Soviet Era: The History of the Perception of the ‘Uniate Problem’ / Sergei L. Firsov -- The Catholic History of the ‘Lviv Sobor’ of 1946 / Mariya Horyacha -- Canonical Considerations on the Legitimacy of the ‘Lviv Sobor’ of 1946 / Thomas Mark Németh -- The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church after the 1946 ‘Lviv Sobor’: Living through the Soviet Period / Natalia Shlikhta -- The Holy See and the ‘Lviv Sobor’ of 1946 / Hyacinthe Destivelle, OP -- Émigré Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church Responses to the 1946 Pseudo-Sobor of Lviv / Myroslaw Tataryn -- Brest 1596 and Lviv 1946 between Historiography and Propaganda: Ecumenical Lessons of two Dramatic Events in Church History / Yury P. Avvakumov -- Towards a Future Collaboration of Byzantine Catholic and Byzantine Orthodox Christians / Antoine Arjakovsky -- Epilogue -- Index.

In 1946 the ‘Lviv Sobor’ voted to liquidate the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church. The Moscow Patriarchate considers it a ‘triumph of Orthodoxy,’ while the Catholic Church condemns it as an illegitimate council convened by Soviet authorities. What is the truth? This volume presents the contexts of the ‘Lviv Sobor,’ its aftermath, and reception from various perspectives. Although there is no common narrative, scholars have concluded that the decisions of the ‘Lviv Sobor’ were coerced by Soviet authorities, the Russian Orthodox Church was forced to collaborate, and that reconciliation depends on acknowledging these facts in order to move toward reconciliation.

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