LEGALIZATION OF GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN 1968
LEGALIZATION OF GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN 1968
Author(s): Jaroslav CoraničSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Greek Catholic Church; Czechoslovakia; Prague Spring; Communism; Vasil Hopko.
Summary/Abstract: This study deals with the fate of the Greek Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia in 1968. Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia was liquidated by communist state power in the period of 1950 - 1968. The Church did not legally exist; its priests and believers were incorporated violently into the Orthodox Church. Improving this situation occurred in 1968, when so Prague Spring took place in Czechoslovakia. The legalization of the Greek Catholic Church was one of its results. This process was stopped by invasion of Warsaw Pact to the Czechoslovakia in August 1968. Full restoration of the Greek Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia thus was occurred after the November revolution in 1989.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai - Theologia Catholica
- Issue Year: 57/2012
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 95-106
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
