The Official Orthodox Periodical of the 1920s and 1930s as a Source of the History of the Neo-Union in Volyn

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the publications of the official printed editions of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the interwar period about the neo-union in the Volyn Voivodeship. The newspapers of the Warsaw Metropolitanate"Vestnyk Pravoslavnoi Mitropolii v Polshe" and "Voskresnoe chtenie" and theVolyn Theological Consistory magazine "Tserkva I narid" were taken into account.The methodological basis of the research is based on the principle of a critical approach to the source material, and is also relies on general scientific methods (analysis and synthesis, generalization, comparison) and specific historical methods(source analysis, problem-chronological, historical-typological). The scientific novelty of the obtained results lies in the first-ever analysis of the source potential of the specified publications for the researcher of the history of the Neo-Union in Volyn. Conclusions .The main vectors of the editorial policy of metropolitanate andeparchy periodicals in relation to neo-Union have been identified; differences causedby the specifics of each of the magazines are noted. The study of ecclesiastical periodicals of the interwar period allows us to draw conclusions that they are animportant source of the history of the Neo-Union in Volyn. The main attention of the editors was devoted to the reasons for the appearance of neo-unionist centers and the opposition of the Orthodox clergy, the activities of converted priests and the assessment of neo-union in various Polish society circles. At the same time, the main shortcomings of these materials were revealed, of which it is necessary to take into account the tendency caused by the confessional affiliation of the publications and the use of information that is not always verified.

Keywords

• neo-union, orthodox church, diocese of volyn, periodicals.