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History of Christianity in Ukraine Eastern Catholic Churches |
Ruthenian Uniate Church to forced dissolution in Soviet Union |
1595 Union of Brest |
1806 transfer of Metropolitan See from Kyiv to Lemberg |
1839 Synod of Polotsk |
1875 Conversion of Chełm Eparchy |
1907 First diaspora bishop |
1946 Synod of Lviv |
Council for Religious Affairs |
Anti-Catholicism in the Soviet Union |
Eastern Catholic victims of Soviet persecutions |
Church in Exile |
1963 Title of Major Archbishop conferred |
Since re-legalization in Ukraine |
1991 return of exiled priests and bishops to Lviv |
2005 transfer of See from Lviv to Kyiv |
Anti-Catholicism in the Soviet Union, including the Soviet Anti-Catholic Campaigns, refer to those concerted efforts taken by the Soviet Union to defame, undermine, or otherwise decrease or limit the role of the Catholic Church in Europe.