Uniat Churches

English

Alternative forms

• Uniate Churches

Noun

Uniat Churches

1. plural of Uniat Church
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniat Churches.

Synonyms

• Eastern Catholic Churches

Hypernyms

• Catholic Church

References

• Bowker, John (2000) “Uniat(e) Churches”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN: “ 'Uniates' is a disparaging term used by the Orthodox Church [...]”
• Cross, Frank L., Livingstone, Elizabeth A., editors (2005), “Uniat Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 1669–1670: “ 'Uniat' [...] was first used by the opponents of the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1595), and has been consistently disowned by the Churches concerned.”