Kwestia narodowościowa w Kościele prawosławnym na terenie diecezji wrocławsko-szczecińskiej
The Nationality Issue in the Orthodox Church in Wrocław–Szczecin Diocese

Summary/Abstract: THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN Poland is one of the few religious associations, which gathers the faithful of different nationalities. We can distinguish in this community Belarusians, Ukrainians, Lemkos, Russians, Poles, Greeks, Macedonians, Serbs, and even small number of the Germans and Romani people. Some contentious issues concerning the functioning of individual national minorities within the Church, and occurring in the interwar period, also found its continuation after 1945. It should be emphasized that the Church did not become a base for social or political life of a specific national minority. It was neither Belarusian nor Ukrainian, or Lemko. It was just Orthodox. The Church is of the primacy of faith in relation to national diversity and in case of the situation of the faithful does not differentiate them ethnically. According to the issue of nationality in the Orthodox Church in the Diocese of Wroclaw-Szczecin it should be mentioned first of all that Ukrainian and Lemko context and to a lesser extent, the Russian, Belarusian and Polish.

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