Orthodox Reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Sharipova, Lludmyla

Abstract

The chapter considers the modalities of religious reform in the Eastern Orthodox Church in Poland-Lithuania from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries, which were directly inspired by the parallel process of religious change in Western and Central Europe. It addresses four major points: exogenous Protestant influences on the Eastern Church, facilitated by the high level of constitutionally-guaranteed confessional toleration in Poland-Lithuania; the position of the Orthodox Church vis-à-vis the Eastern patriarchs, the Polish-Lithuanian state, and the relationship between the Orthodox Church hierarchy and the laity; endogenous reforming tendencies at the grass-roots level and the response of the Orthodox episcopate to this challenge; and the significance of the realignment of the Metropolitanate of Kiev in tune with the realities on the ground, presented by the shifting confessional situation.

Citation

Sharipova, L. (2015). Orthodox Reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In H. Louthan, & G. Murdock (Eds.), A companion to the Reformation in Central Europe (223-253). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004301627_011

• Online Publication Date: Sep 17, 2015
• Publication Date: Sep 25, 2015
• Deposit Date: Oct 11, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 3, 2019
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Pages: 223-253
• Series Title: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition
• Series Number: 61
• Edition: 1st
• Book Title: A companion to the Reformation in Central Europe
• Chapter Number: 9
• ISBN: 9789004255272
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004301627_011
• Keywords: Reformation, laity, episcopate, Catholicism, Protestantism, Greek Orthodox Church
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2806537
• Publisher URL: https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004301627/B9789004301627-s011.xml
• Contract Date: Oct 11, 2019