Metropolitan Macarius II (1534-1555)

Question about the Metropolis of Galicia

General characteristics of the situation of the Orthodox Church in the first half of the XVI century: the reign of Sigismund I (1506-1548)

Protestantism in Poland and Lithuania

Sigismund II Augustus led. Prince of Lithuania from 1544 and King of Poland from 1548 to 1572.

Heretics

The Positive Side of Sigismund Augustus' Liberalism for Orthodoxy

Metropolitan Sylvester Belkevich (1556-1567)

Jonah III Protasevich (1568-1576)

Lithuanian State Union (1569). Roman Catholic reaction. Jesuits in Poland

Ilya Ioakimovich Kucha (1576-1579)

Onesiphorus Devocha (Girl) (1579-1589)

Russian Orthodox Education

Ostrog Bible 1580-81

Ostroh school

Brotherhood

Vilna St. Trinity Brotherhood

Fraternal Schools

The literary struggle of the Russians

An episode in the struggle against the Gregorian calendar (1583-1586)

Sigismund III (1587-1632)

The rudiments of the union

Union

Arrival of Patriarch Jeremiah II

Metropolitan Mikhail Rogoza (1589-1596)

An open struggle for and against the union

Political alliance of Orthodox Christians with Protestants

Action in Rome

Union of Brest-Litovsk of 1596

Cathedral. The beginning of the struggle against the union

Opening of the cathedral

After the Brest Cathedral

Preface

None of the Christian European peoples is characterized by the temptations of such self-denial as the Russians. If this is not a total denial, as in Chaadaev's case, then it is an open, on occasion, emphasis on our backwardness and weakness, as if our qualitative by nature is secondary. This very old-fashioned "Europeanism" has not yet been outlived even in our generations, which are already leaving the scene, nor in our youth, who are growing up in emigrant isolation from Russia. And there, in the large and distorted former USSR, the opposite extreme was imposed. There, both Europeanism and Russism are denied and overshadowed by a supposedly new and more perfect synthesis of so-called economic materialism.