Kościół polski na pograniczu chrześcijaństwa rzymskiego w średniowieczu
The Polish Church on the Boundaries of Roman Christianity in the Middle Ages

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the organizational aspects of the early Church in Poland, the development and changes in Church structure in the late Middle Ages, the organization of the Orthodox Church in Poland (due to annexation of lands by Casmir the Great and the Polish-Lithuanian Union, Poland and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth became a multi-confessional state). The last part of the article presents the main problems connected with the missionary activity of the Polish Church addressed both to the heathens (Pomeranians, Prussians, Yatvingians, and Lithuanians) as well as to the Orthodox ‘‘schismatics’’. Reformation in the 16th century decidedly deepened the religious divisions in Poland.

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