Historian Every Saturday: Svitlana Vizer. The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church Between Rome and Constantinople (08.03.2025)

A lecture by historian Svitlana Vizer (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on the Union of Brest of 1596. Key points: the Union as a union of the Kyiv Metropolitanate with Rome (out of which the Greek Catholic Church arose); the deep roots of the western orientation (Danylo Romanovych, the Council of Ferrara-Florence, Metropolitan Isidore); Kyiv’s subordination not to Moscow but to a weak Patriarch of Constantinople; and the Moscow Patriarchate (1589) as a new political project laying claim to the Ruthenian lands. A source for the article on the Union of Brest.