2011, Theodor Damian, “Romania, Patriarchal Orthodox Church of”, in John A. McGuckin, editor, The encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, volume 2, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 475:
This situation lasted until 1948, when the clergy and faithful belonging to the Unia, under pressure from the communist regime, again merged with the old Romanian Orthodox Church.
Proper noun: "the Uniate Church established in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Union of Brest-Litovsk"[edit]
1842, Richard W. Blackmore, A history of the Church of Russia, Oxford: John Henry Parker, translation of original by Andrew Nicholaevich Mouravieff, →OCLC, page 137:
The metropolitan himself, though otherwise a man of irreproachable life, had been twice married, which was contrary to the canons; and the same was the case with Cyrill Terletsky, bishop of Loutsk, the first author of the Unia.
2010, Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson, “Unia-Uniate Churches”, in The A to Z of the Orthodox Church (A to Z guides; 175), Lanham: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 331:
Although the Unia proper began with the Council and Union of Brest-Litovsk (1596), the prehistory of the movement certainly goes back ideologically to the Reunion Councils (q.v.) centuries before. After Muscovite Christianity (q.v.) established its own patriarchate (q.v.) in 1589, the king and nobility of Poland–Lithuania requested the organization of an Eastern rite of the Roman Church.
2011, John A. McGuckin, “Lithuania, Orthodoxy in”, in John A. McGuckin, editor, The encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, volume 1, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 368:
The westernization of Lithuania was symbolically manifested at the Union of Brest-Litovsk in 1596, which created the "Unia." Immense pressure was, after this point, placed on the Orthodox Church's daily life. By the 19th century the Russian Church became Lithuanian Orthodoxy's dominant patron, abolishing in 1839 the terms and existence of the Unia, a deed which proved to be a dubious liberation for Orthodoxy in the country, since it was locally seen as an attempted suppression of Lithuania's political existence as other than a Russian satellite.
2012, Marcus Plested, Orthodox readings of Aquinas (Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology), Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 173:
Both men composed theological works of distinctly Thomist character and were eventually to embrace the Unia, being pushed to do so by the condemnation of their works in Moscow.
2016 February 5, Hilarion Alfeyev, “Press conference at DECR on Patriarch Kirill's forthcoming visit to Latin America”, in mospat.ru[1], Moscow: The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations, archived from the original on 2016-02-05:
All these years, the principal problem in the relations between the two Churches and the principal obstacle for holding a meeting between the two Primates has lied in Unia.