Biskupi uniccy wobec reform kalendarza w drugiej połowie XVIII wieku

Abstrakt

The provisions of the Union of Brest guaranteed the use of the Julian calendar in the Uniate Church. In the second half of the 18^th century, as result of the social-political changes and of the so-called reduction of holidays in the Latin Church the issue of a reform of the calendar was brought up in the circle of the Uniate Church hierarchs. Work on it and debates showed that the calendar was clearly considered to be a element identifying all the faithful and an important factor creating a sense of separateness and of one's identity in the multi-confessional and multinational Republic of Poland. The issue of a reform of the calendar used by the Uniate Church was raised in the forum of the Great Sejm, but a new list of holidays was compiled by Uniate bishops during the congress held in Warsaw on 17^th September 1790. The hierarchy of the Uniate Church also had to take a position on the changes in the calendar introduced by the invader countries. The actions taken by Uniate hierarchs in the 18^th century are an illustration of the attempt to unite and combine economic reasons with religious and social influences dictated by the ideas of the Enlightenment.