Proces ukrainizacji kościoła grecko-katolickiego w Galicji Wschodniej w pierwszym etapie posługi duszpasterskiej metropolity Andrzeja Szeptyckiego (1899–1919). u źródeł konfliktu religijnego i narodowościowego na kresach południowo-wschodnich II RP
The Process of Ukrainianisation of the Greek Catholic Church in Eastern Galicia in the first Stage of the Pastoral Ministry of Archbishop Andrzej Szeptycki (1899–1919). At the Source of the Religious and national Conflict in the South-Eastern Borderl

Summary/Abstract: This article concerns the evolution of the Greek Catholic Church in terms of its approach to issues of nationality in Eastern Galicia. The author shows the enormous role played by the Uniate clergy, led by the Metropolitan of Lviv, Andrzej Szeptycki, in the Ukrainification of the Church. Szeptycki subordinated his political sympathies to the primary goal of bring Russian Orthodoxy and the Catholic Church together (building a new union). By helping the Ukrainian movement, he gained sympathy among the Greek Catholic clergy, who were important in conducting missions in the East. As to his foreign contacts, at the beginning of the First World War he cooperated with the Austrians, and later attempted to establish contact with the Tsar in order to support the process of building a great Ukraine at the end of the war. At no stage of his activities did he see any need to cooperate with Polish politicians; on the contrary, he was against Polish aspirations in the former borderlands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In this way, the Greek Catholic Church, and Szeptycki himself, came into a lasting conflict with the renewed Polish state.

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