Magony-Biró, Kata (2023) The Mission of the Congregation of the Resurrection among the Bulgarian Uniate faithful in the Ottoman Empire (1863-1903). Doctoral thesis, Pázmány Péter Catholic University.
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The subject of my dissertation is the missionary activity of a Polish clerical catholic religious congregation, the Congregation of the Resurrection, among the Bulgarian Uniate faithful in the second half of the 19th century in the northeastern Thracian area of the Ottoman Empire. Deprived of their national independence and flourishing Christian statehood by the Ottoman conquest and of their religious autonomy by the Patriarchate of Constantinople, small groups of the Bulgarian population entered into religious union and unity with the Holy See in 1859 and 1860. They are the Bulgarian Uniates, who are the guardians of the Byzantine tradition in the Catholic Church with their Byzantine-Slavic rite (Byzantine rite and ecclesiastical Slavonic liturgical language), and at the same time are in full unity in faith and government with the Holy See. The members of the Resurrectionist congregation were sent by Pope Pius IX to the Bulgarian territories to help the Bulgarian Union movement - which had developed in 1860-61 and then suffered many attacks - to support the faithful who had become Uniate Catholics and remained in the Catholic faith, and to train Bulgarian priests and lay Catholic intellectuals for the Bulgarians. The work of the Congregation among the Bulgarians included, in addition to pastoral work, the activity of education, the vocation to monastic religious life or to priesthood, and the formation of priests.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | A Church/mission history G Christian traditions/Denominations > Roman Catholic |
| Divisions: | Balkan countries > Bulgaria Central Europe > Poland |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2026 16:46 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2026 16:46 |
| URI: | https://ceamol.osims.org/id/eprint/3276 |
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