LVIV SYNOD OF 1891: PREREQUISITES FOR THE CONDUCT, PROCEDURE AND DECISIONS

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to carry out a systematic analysis of the prerequisites, procedure and decisions of Lviv Synod of 1891 and determine its influence on the modernization of the Greek Catholic Church and the Canon law at the end of the ХІХth – the beginning of the ХХth century. The methodology of the research. The interdisciplinary nature of work with a combination of religious, cultural, social and legal aspects has led to a complementary approach to the choice of research methods. While choosing research methods, the authors took into account their compliance with such criteria as efficiency and reliability. Such approaches were used in the study as: dialectical, descriptive, historical, technical and comparative law. The scientific novelty is that the article highlights the reasons, procedure and significance of Lviv Synod of 1891, which had not only a religious significance for the renewal and modernization of the church, but also contributed to the intensification and consolidation of the entire liberation movement of the Ukrainians for national revival at the end of the ХІХth century – the beginning of the ХХth century. The Conclusions. The decisions carried out by Lviv Synod had a positive effect on both the Church and the Ukrainian population as a whole. The intensification of all Ukrainian socio-political life in Halychyna (Galicia) during the last decades of the end of the ХІХth – the beginning of the ХХth centuries is the “indirectˮ consequence of the Synod. In particular, the local social movement began to acquire a more organized character with a certain national color. Lviv Synod of 1891 became an important source for the particular law of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Although there were two “internal currentsˮ among the Synodal Fathers, such as the conservative and the reformist, their sometimes polar positions did not split the Synod, but rather added their own identity.

Key words: Eparchy, liturgy, Lviv Synod, metropolitan, Synodal Fathers.