From: hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell)
Subject: Re: Latin Anyone?
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 06:37:00 GMT

allenmk@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (The Not So Tall Adventurer) writes:
: Someone already translated this, so I won't even try to do that.  But I am
: curious about one thing--why is this document of the Greek Orthodox Church
: written in Latin?  I thought that Greek Orthodoxy had maintained the use of
: Greek in all things.  ??  Certainly someone out there knows more about this
: than I do (seeing as I know very little about it).
	
	Um, it doesn't say it was a Gk Orthodox document, it says it was
a Greek CATHOLIC one. This is not a mistake- There is a difference:
Here is what the ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA (1911 edition -
the best for historians, I think) has to say about all this.
(my emphasis throughout):

From vol 11
GALICIA, a crownland of Austria, bounded E and N by Russia, S. by
Bukovina and Hungary, and W by Austrian and Prussian Silesia. It
has an area of 30,299 sq m, and is the largest Austrian province.
It comprises the old kingdoms of Galicia and Lodomeria, the duchies
of Auschwitz and Zator, and the grand duchy of Cracow.
     [lots of stuff about geog and climate deleted]
Galicia had in 1900 a population of 7,295,538 which is equivalent
to 241 inhabitants per sq m. The two principal nationalities are
the Poles (45%) and RUTHENIANS  (42%), the former predominating in
the west and in the big towns, AND THE LATTER IN THE EAST.  . . the
Poles are mostly Roman Catholics, the Ruthenians are Greek
Catholics and there are over 770,000 Jews, and about 2500
Armenians, who are Catholics and stand under the jurisdiction of an
Armenian archbishop at Lemberg. 
     The Roman Catholic Church has an archbishop, at Lemberg, and
three bishops, at Cracow, at Przemysl and at Tarnow, and THE GREEK
CATHOLIC CHURCH IS REPRESENTED BY AN ARCHBISHOP, AND TWO BISHOPS ,
AT LEMBERG, AT PRZEMYSL AND AT STANISLAU. . . .

From vol 22
RUTHENIANS, a name applied to those of the Little Russians who are
Austrian subjects. The name is a form of the word "Russian". The
Ruthenians were separated from the bulk of Russians by the accident
of the two feudal principalities of the old Red Russia, Halic and
Volhynia, having fallen to Lithuania, which in turn was untied with
Poland. At the partition of Poland no one troubled about
ethnological boundaries. (Ha! plus ca change etc) The language is
in substance like the Little Russian of the Ukraine, though it has
marked differences. . . [stuff about dialects deleted] . .. The
Ruthenians number some three million in Galicia, Bukovina and in
the Carpathians along the edges of Hungary from the 21st meridian
eastwards. Throughout Galicia the Poles form the aristocracy,
though in two-thirds of it Ruthenians form the bulk of the
population, while the middle class is Jewish or German. The
Ruthenians are therefore under an alien yoke both politically and
economically: IN RELIGION THEY MOSTLY BELONG TO THE UNIATE CHURCH,
ACKNOWLEDGING THE POPE BUT RETAINING THEIR SLAVONIC LITURGY AND
MOST OF THE OUTWARD FORMS OF THE GREEK CHURCH. Their intellectual
centre is Lemberg (Lviv or Lwow), where some of the lectures in the
university are given in their language, and they are agitating for
it to have equal rights with Polish. . .  [stuff about nationalist
poetry etc deleted]

Richard Pennell History National University of Singapore

: Melinda
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: Melinda K. Allen                  The LORD is close to the brokenhearted 
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