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The '''Union of Brest''' refers to the 1595-1596 decision of the ([[Eastern Catholic Churches|Ruthenian]]) Church of Rus', the Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus', to break relations with the [[Church of Constantinople|Patriarch of Constantinople]] and place itself under the [[Roman Catholic Church|Pope of Rome]] in order to avoid being ruled by the newly established [[Church of Russia|Patriarch of Moscow]]. At the time, this church included most Ukrainians and Belarusians, under the rule of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The [[hierarch]]s of the Kievan church gathered in [[synod]] in the city of Brest to compose the union's 33 articles, which were then accepted by the [[Roman Catholic]] pope. At first widely successful, within several decades it had lost much of its initial support. In Austrian Galicia, however, the church fared well and remains strong to this day, most notably in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
The union was strongly supported by the king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania, Sigismund III Vasa, but opposed by some [[bishop]]s and prominent nobles of Rus' and perhaps most importantly by the nascent Cossack movement for Ukrainian self-rule. The result was "Rus' fighting against Rus'" and the splitting of the Church of Rus' into Greek Catholic — also known as Uniate — and Orthodox jurisdictions.
==Background==
==Sources==
* ''The Orthodox Church'' , 2nd ed., by Bishop [[Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia|Kallistos Ware]]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Brest&oldid=135869483 wikipedia]
[[Category:Church History]]
==For Further Information==
* <I> Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolinate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest </I> by Borys A. Gudziak. Harvard University Press, 2001. (ISBN 0-916458-92-X)
==External Links==
* [http://jbburnett.com/resources/union-of-brest.html Articles of the Union of Brest]