Interreligious Marriages on the Polish-Ruthenian Borderland in Galicia in the Light of Canon Law
Keywords:
mixed marriages; Ruthenians; Latin Catholics; Union; Concordia
Abstract
Many centuries of co-habitation of Poles and Ruthenians in common areas of the borderland created an exceptional denominational situation. Both nations were often joined within one family. Problems caused by the meeting of Greek Catholic and Latin traditions should have been regulated by special Church documents of a local character, as well as by ones promulgated by the Holy See.
