Od Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego, przez Kościół unicki, do Kościoła prawosławnego. Pokasacyjne dzieje świątyń dominikanów w Janowie Podlaskim i reformatów w Białej Podlaskiej
From Roman Catholic Church through Uniate Church to Orthodox Church. The Post-Dissolution History of Dominican Church at Janów Podlaski and of Reformed Friars Minor at Biała Podlaska

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to present the post-dissolution fate of two convent churches: of the Dominicans at Janów Podlaski and Reformed Friars Minor at Biała Podlaska. Between 1864 and 1875, both churches changed their intended purpose several times. After the dissolution of their religious convents, the church buildings became subsidiary churches, then were handed over to the Uniate Church and converted into the Orthodox churches of that rite. With the liquidation of the Uniate Chełm diocese in 1875, they became Orthodox churches as the post-Union property. The article is based on archival materials on both churches kept in the State Archives in Lublin in the Chełm Greek Catholic Consistory fonds (ref. nos. 286, 353). The documents preserved there make it possible to reconstruct details related to the transfer of both Catholic churches to the Uniates. The study makes it apparent how the tsarist secular authorities tried to use these transformations to remove from the Uniate décor and furnishing these elements that were incompatible with the Orthodox rite.

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