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Uniat_Churches

Uniat Churches

English

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Noun

Uniat Churches

  1. plural of Uniat Church
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Uniat Churches.

Synonyms

  • Eastern Catholic Churches

Hypernyms

References

  • Bowker, John (2000), Uniat(e) Churches”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780192800947, published 2003:'Uniates' is a disparaging term used by the Orthodox Church [...]”
  • Cross, Frank L.; Livingstone, Elizabeth A., editors (2005), Uniat Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780192802903, published 2009, pages 1669–1670:'Uniat' [...] was first used by the opponents of the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1595), and has been consistently disowned by the Churches concerned.”