Brest Union of 1596 and its significance in the history of the Kyiv Church

Abstract

"If the baptism of Ukraine is generally positively assessed by historians as an event that ushered in a new Christian era in Kievan Rus," Bishop Andriy Sapelyak rightly remarked.

Most researchers of the Church and national history believe that the Brest Union was the second epoch-making event in the history of Ukraine and Ukrainian Christianity in 988 in terms of positive consequences, a natural result of objective processes in the historical development of the Church, in the context of integration of Eastern and Western ecclesiastical traditions.