Bez przeszłości nie ma przyszłości – wiedza o kościołach rzymskokatolickich na Zaporoskim Przyazowiu
Without the past there is no future – Roman Catholic Churches at the Zaporozhye Priazovye

Summary/Abstract: The national and religious identity of Polish minority in the north-eastern Ukraine for centurieshas been shaped under the influence of different factors than in the western part of the country. Theproblem of self-identification of homo postsovieticus is strongly linked with the idea of multiculturalismand a conscious choice of ethnicity. Poles from the Zaporozhye Priazovye have lived thousandskilometres away from the Motherland in a multicultural society consisting of over 130 nationalities. Inorder to understand how the Polish minority identity from the Zaporozhye Priazovye has been shaped itis important to learn about the history of the Roman Catholic Church in that region. The article presentsthe history of the above-mentioned Polish minority via the history of the churches in Dnipro, Kamianske,and Zaporizhia. The image of a Catholic Pole in reference to the Polish minority often turns outto be ambiguous, because for a long time the development of religion in those regions was impossible.

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