CIVIC POSITION OF THE GREEK CATHOLIC CLERGY IN THE ELECTIONS TO THE POLISH SEJM AND THE SENATE
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https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058X.23.258969Abstract
The purpose of the study is to elucidate the civic position of the Greek Catholic clergy during the elections to the Polish Sejm and the Senate in November of 1922. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, systematization, scientificity, objectivity, use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization), special and historical (historical and genetic, historical and typological, historical and systemic) methods. The novelty of the study is that there has been done a substantive analysis of the Polish authorities policy against the Greek Catholic clergy before and under conditions of the elections to the Polish Sejm and Senate in November of 1922; there has been clarified the attitude of the Polish authorities to the activities of Father Mykola Ilkiv, who supported the participation of the clergy in the elections. The Conclusions. The majority of the Greek Catholic clergy strongly boycotted the elections to the Polish Sejm and the Senate on November 5 and 12, 1922. Priests suspected of anti-Polishness were subjected to various persecutions and repressions by the Polish law enforcement agencies. Priests were often fined, the Polish police searched the homes of the clergy, and conducted audits in the Greek Catholic churches. Dozens of priests from different parts of Galicia were arrested. Only a small part of the Greek Catholic clergy supported the pro-Polish Ukrainian Farmers’ Party (UCP) in the elections, which was headed by the priest Mykola Ilkiv. The boycott of the parliamentary elections of 1922 by the Ukrainian population showed that the majority of its inhabitants did not recognize the legitimacy of the Polish government. The Greek Catholic Church, with its consistent position, confirmed the reputation of the national Church.
Key words: the Greek Catholic clergy, the Polish authorities, elections to the Sejm and Senate in 1922, elections boycott, repressive policy, priest Mykola Ilkiv.
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