Czechoslovakia and the Interfaith Conflict between Greek Catholics and Orthodox in Subcarpathian Rus: an overview of the causes and the beginning of the crisis
Czechoslovakia and the Interfaith Conflict between Greek Catholics and Orthodox in Subcarpathian Rus: an overview of the causes and the beginning of the crisis

Summary/Abstract: In contrast to Czechoslovak anti-Catholicism, the emphasis in Subcarpathian Russia shifted to the interfaith crisis, and the “reputation” of the Orthodox Church also suffered from this conflict and agitators. The split of the Orthodox by the state does not change the situation much, because in the end the former Greek Catholic parishes were taken over by the Orthodox of the Serbian jurisdiction. The Czechoslovak authorities tried to influence religious life through the uneducated Savatian clergy and agitators; and the anti-Hungarian factor remained an instrument of agitation against the Greek Catholics by all stakeholders.

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