Unijne konferencje kapłańskie w Pińsku jako inicjatywa biskupa Zygmunta Łozińskiego
Uniate Pastoral Conferences in Pińsk as an Initiative of Bishop Zygmunt Łoziński

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the great religious-political debate on the Neouniate movement, a new form of attraction of the Orthodox population to unify with the Catholic Church. During the pastoral conferences held in Pińsk, the Church tried to find arguments to convince Polish political factions to accept Uniate action in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. It was shown that the intention of church circles was not to create a new national separatism in the Borderlands (modelled on the Ukrainian one in Eastern Lesser Poland) but to conduct a missionary campaign of a primarily religious nature. The article also shows an intra-church discussion on Byzantine influences in the Eastern rites, leading to the complete rigidity of the liturgy and a reduction of theological concerns among the Uniates exclusively to ritual issues. During the deliberations at the pastoral conferences, solutions were sought that included respecting the old Eastern Rite and teaching converts the basics of Catholic theology

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