Uniat Definition

yo͝onē-ăt, -ĭt
adjective
Of or relating to the Eastern Catholic churches.
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Alternative spelling of Uniate.

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noun
A member of an Eastern Catholic church.
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Synonyms:
  • Uniate Christian
  • uniate

Origin of Uniat

  • Russian uniyat from Polish uniat the Union of Brest (1596), which established the churches from unija union from Late Latin ūniō union

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Uniat Sentence Examples

  • Thus the Servians are mostly Greek Orthodox; the Ruthenians are Uniat Greeks; the Rumanians are either Greek Orthodox or Greek Uniats; the Slovaks are Lutherans; the only other Lutherans are the Germans in Transylvania and in the Zsepes county.

  • The Armenian Uniat Church is partly under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic bishop of Transylvania, and partly under that of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Kalocsa.

  • There were in Hungary in 1900 forty-nine high theological colleges, twenty-nine Roman Catholic; five Greek Uniat, four Greek Orthodox, ten Protestant and one Jewish.

  • Nobles and ministers of state, with the chief ecclesiastics not only of the Russian Church but of the Roman, the Uniat, the Armenian, the Greek, the Georgian and the Lutheran Churches, found themselves constrained to serve on its committees.

  • Outside the Orthodox Church are some small congregations of Uniat Basilians.

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