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All Journal [5] Monographs [14]

Sources from Church History [2] Materials from conferences [4] «Christian Ukraine» series [1]

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Kovcheh. A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 5

Kovcheh. A Scholarly Journal of Church History / editors: Fr. Borys Gudziak, Ihor Skochylyas, Oleh Turij. - Volume 5, Lviv: «Misioner» Publishing Interpride 2007. - viii+452 p. ISBN 978-966-658-098-9

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The Ark («Kovcheh»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 4

The Ark («Kovcheh»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 4. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press, 2003. - 339 c. ISBN 966-7034-42-9 The main theme of the annual The Ark for 2004 is demonstrated by materials from the international scholarly conference «Confessional Identity and National Involvement: Greek Catholic Churches of Central-Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries». This conference was held on 15-19 May 2002 in Lviv and was organized by the Centre for the History and Culture of Eastern Central Europe (Leipzig) and the Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy (now Ukrainian Catholic University). The conference gathered scholars representing nearly all the Greek Catholic churches of the region and Roman Catholic and Orthodox scholars at the same table, probably for the first time.

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The Ark («Kovcheh»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 3.

The Ark («Kovcheh»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 3. Lviv 2002. - 576 p. ISBN 966-7034-26-7 The Institute of Church History and the Ukrainian Committee on Comparative Church History continue publishing their periodical organ in a renewed format. Volume 3 (for year 2001) was printed in 2002. It includes translations and original research, results of scholarly projects of the Institute of Church History, texts of speeches delivered at seminars and guest lectures held by the Institute, publications of original sources and materials of discussions connected with the activities of the Kyivan Church Study Group, and also reviews of church history books.

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Kovcheh («The Ark»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 2

Kovcheh («The Ark»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 2. Lviv 2000. 519 p. ISBN 966-7034-19-4 In 2001 Kovcheh was renewed in a new format as an annual. The journal contains regular sections for articles, publications based on sources, discussions, and reviews.

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Kovcheh («The Ark»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 1

Kovcheh («The Ark»). A Scholarly Journal of Church History. Volume 1. Lviv 1993. 189 p. ISBN 5-87274-044-1

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Skochylyas Ihor. Religion and Culture of Western Volhynia in the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century.

Skochylyas Ihor. Religion and Culture of Western Volhynia in the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century. Based on the Materials of the Volodymyr's Synod of the Year 1715. - Lviv, 2008. - 80 p. ISBN 978-966-02-4707-9 Research was conducted on the analysis of the remarkable source «Synodus Dioecesana Vladimiriensis» - a collection of acts from the Eparchial Synod held in the bishopric see of Volodymyr on October 13-15, 1715. This collection includes, among other documentations, «Acts» and constitutions of the Synod, and the Regulation of the Volodymyr eparchial seminary, - the oldest extant program of the confessionalization of theological studies in the Uniates educational institutions.

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Suttner, Ernst Christoph. Ecclesiastical Divisions and the Unity of the Church

Suttner, Ernst Christoph. Ecclesiastical Divisions and the Unity of the Church. / Translation from Germany by Oleh Turij. Lviv: «Misioner» 2007. - 152 p. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 978-966-658-127-6 Above all the monograph clarifies the main ideas and statements of the Second Vatican Council on the mystical and earthly dimensions of the existence of the Church of Christ, different degrees of her unity, and the types of ecclesiastical divisions.

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Faith after the Time of Atheism: Religious Life in Ukraine during Democratic Transformations and State Independence

Faith after the Time of Atheism: Religious Life in Ukraine during Democratic Transformations and State Independence. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Publishers 2004. - 228 p. [= Series «Christian Ukraine» 10].[in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-7034-52-6 The results of research on the particularities of Ukrainian religious life lie at the foundation of this publication. This research was realized as part of an international project initiated by Professor Paul Zulehner of the University of Vienna, «AUFBRUCH», a comparative analysis of the religiosity of the population and situation of the Christian Churches in 10 former communist countries of Central-Eastern Europe after the collapse of totalitarianism (articles of O. Turii and M. Tomka).

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Harnoncourt, Philipp. Gott feiern in versЪhnter Verschiedenheit. AufsКtze zur Liturgie, zur SpiritualitКt und zur Еkumene.

Harnoncourt, Philipp. Gott feiern in versЪhnter Verschiedenheit. AufsКtze zur Liturgie, zur SpiritualitКt und zur Еkumene. L'viv/Lemberg: SVICADO, 2004. - 252 S. ISBN 966-561-363-4 Verlag Herder Freiburg im Breisgau 2005. ISBN 3-451 -28924-5

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Oleh Dolnytskyi. A Chronicle of the Dolnytskyi Family. Documents, Materials, Memoirs: Genealogical Research.

Oleh Dolnytskyi. A Chronicle of the Dolnytskyi Family. Documents, Materials, Memoirs: Genealogical Research. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University 2004. - VI+658 c. ISBN 996-7034-43 This book tells about the origin, formation and development of the ancient Ukrainian family of Halychyna (Galicia) the Dolnytskyis over the last 300 years. It shows, with the example of this family of priests, how the Christian principles and convictions which lay at the foundation of national spiritual and cultural traditions were fostered in Ukrainian society over the centuries.

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Skochylyas Ihor. Visitationes generales metropoliae Kioviensis unitae XVII-XVIII saeculorum: diocesia Leopoliensis, Haliciensis et Camenecensis. Volumen 2: Acta visitationum generalium.

Skochylyas Ihor. Visitationes generales metropoliae Kioviensis unitae XVII-XVIII saeculorum: diocesia Leopoliensis, Haliciensis et Camenecensis. Volumen 2: Acta visitationum generalium. Leopoli, 2004. ccviii+512 c. ISBN 966-7034-5 The second volume of the book by Ihor Skochylyas focuses on the protocols of general visitation of Lviv Eparchy in the XVIII century, which testify to pastoral ministries of bishops of Kyiv Uniate Metropolitanate.

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Church of the Martyrs

Church of the Martyrs. General ed. Oleh Turij. Lviv: «Svichado» 2004. - 54 p. ISBN 966-561-345-6

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Fr. Ernst Christoph Suttner, Ukrainian Christianity at the Beginning of the Third Millenium: Historical Experience and Ecclesiastical Perspectives.

Fr. Ernst Christoph Suttner, Ukrainian Christianity at the Beginning of the Third Millenium: Historical Experience and Ecclesiastical Perspectives. Lviv: the Studite Monastery. Svichado Publishers 2001. - 168 p. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-561-238-7 The volume is composed of Suttner's writings on ecclesiastical and ecumenical aspects of the historical development, contemporary state and future objectives of the Christian Church in Ukraine.

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Ihor Sevcenko. Ukraine between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century

Ihor Sevcenko, Ukraine between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century / Authorized translation from English by Maria Hablevych; editor Andrii Yasinovskyi. Lviv 2001. - XIX + 250 p., 5 maps [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-7034-22-4 The book is mainly composed of lectures delivered by the author from 1970 to 1974 at Harvard University. It includes 12 essays ranging from the very beginning of Christianity in Kyivan Rus to the early 18th century. Seven of them had already been published in various journals and scholarly collections. Other essays are being published for the first time.

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Fr. Laslo Pushkash, Theodore Romzha: Life and Death of a Bishop

Fr. Laslo Pushkash, Theodore Romzha: Life and Death of a Bishop. Lviv 2001. - 244 p. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-7034-21-6 This biography of the bishop of the Mukachivo Greek Catholic eparchy is based upon a variety of sources, primarily on the reminiscences of contemporaries. The author treats his life as an integral part of the history of the Greek Catholic Church in Transcarpathia. Romzha headed the eparchy in the most critical period, when the Soviet authorities tried to eliminate the Union by means of prohibitions and brutal repressions. The author talks in detail about the formation of Bishop Romzha's personality, his spiritual development, his ministry as a priest in the villages of Verkhovyna and his teaching at the Uzhhorod seminary.

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Ukrainian translation of Fr. Borys Gudziak's. Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest, Cambridge (Mass.) 1998.

Gudziak, Borys A. Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest. Translated from English by Maria Hablevych, ed. by Oleh Turii. Lviv: Institute of Church History of Lviv Theological Academy 2000. - xvi + 426 p. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-7034-17-8 «Crisis and Reform» explains and reevaluates one of the most controversial events in Slavic church history, the Union of Brest (1596), through which the majority of the Ruthenian hierarchy recognized the supremacy of the pope in Rome while retaining its Slavonic- Byzantine liturgical tradition and ethos.

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Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Greek Catholics in Russia. Volume 1: Documents and Materials, 1899-1917

Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Greek Catholics in Russia, Volume 1: Documents and Materials, 1899-1917/ compiled by J. Avvakumov, O. Hajova. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press 2004. - xlix + 924 p. ISBN 966-7034-49-6 This collective work presents results of the first part of the research project about Metropolitan Andrey (Sheptytsky) and Russian Greek-Catholics. Published documents show the fundamental questions of Eastern rite Catholics' consciousnes and identity, as well as at the ecumenical aspects of Sheptytsky's activities in Russia.

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The Main Ruthenian Council (1848-1851): Minutes of the Sessions and Book of Correspondence

Edited by O. Turii, compiled by U. Kryshtalovych and I. Svarnyk. Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Ukrainian Catholic University, 2002. - XXXIV + 270 p. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 966-7034-34-8 This collection includes the foundational documents of the Main Ruthenian Council, the first Ukrainian national-political organization, created in Halychyna at the initiative of and under the direction of the Greek Catholic hierarchy at the time of the revolutionary European uprisings of 1848. The whole spectrum of the multi-sided activities of this institution are reflected in the minutes of the sessions and the book of correspondence: the condition of its structure, the working-out of its ideology and forms of political struggle, the establishment of the first Ukrainian periodical and other cultural-educational initiatives, attempts at «Ukrainianization» of the administration, primary education, and the creation of the first Ukrainian military formations, defense of the rights of villagers, and securing religious equality.

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The Union of Brest and Internal Church Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Fourth «Brest Lectures»

The Union of Brest and Internal Church Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Fourth «Brest Lectures». Lviv, Lutsk, Kyiv, October 2-6, 1995 / Editors: Borys Gudziak, Oleh Turii. – Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy, 1997. – x +155 pp. ISBN 996-7034-03-8

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The Union of Brest and Ukrainian Culture in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Third «Brest Lectures»

The Union of Brest and Ukrainian Culture in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Third «Brest Lectures». Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, June 20-23, 1995. / Editors: Borys Gudziak, Oleh Turii. – Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy, 1996. – x +185 pp. [in Ukrainian] ISBN 5-7707-9328-7

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State, Society and Church in Ukraine in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Second «Brest Lectures»

State, Society and Church in Ukraine in the Seventeenth Century. The Materials of the Second «Brest Lectures». Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, February 1-6, 1995. / Editors: Borys Gudziak, Oleh Turii. – Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy, 1996. – x +197 pp. ISBN 5-7707-9327-9

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The Historical Context, the Signing of the Union of Brest, and the First Post-Union Generation. The Materials of the First «Brest Lectures»

The Historical Context, the Signing of the Union of Brest and the First Post-Union Generation. The Materials of the First «Brest Lectures». Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, October 1-5, 1994. / Editors: Borys Gudziak, Oleh Turii. – Lviv: Institute of Church History of the Lviv Theological Academy, 1995. – x +188 pp. ISBN 5-7707-8216-1

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Series «Christian Ukraine»

Borys А. Gudziak. Institute of Church History Lviv Theological Academy. Lviv 2001 [= Christian Ukraine 3]. - 20 с. Borys A. Gudziak. Ukrainian Religious Life During the First Five Years of Independence. Lviv 2001 [= Christian Ukraine 5]. - 28 с. Oleh Turij. Greek Catholics, Latins and Orthodox in Ukraine: Who's Who? Lviv 2001 [= Christian Ukraine 8]. - 16 с. Oleh Turij. Griechisch-katholiken, lateiner und orthodoxe in der Ukraine: gegeneinander, nebeneinander oder miteinander? Lviv 2001 [= Christian Ukraine 9]. - 16 с. Оlеh Turij. Das religioese Leben und die zwischenkonfessionellen Verhaeltnisse in der unabhaengigen Ukraine. Lviv 2007 [= Christian Ukraine 12]. - 40 с.

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