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- Title
«Rito greco, lingua dalmatica»: Ruthenians in Early Modern Rome.
- Authors
Upart, Anatole
- Abstract
In 1639, Pope Urban VIII entrusted the church of Santi Sergio e Bacco in Rome to the Byzantine-Rite Basilian monks from regions that now form part of Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. The essay briefly outlines how this national church differed from others that predated it. Besides being the church for the Ruthenians, themselves subject to the Polish king, the place served as the seat for the representative of the Basilian Order, who also acted as procurator of the Ruthenian Greek-Catholic Church to the Holy See. Relying on the combination of their own Marian imagery and oversight by local architects, SS. Sergio e Bacco presents us with a rare scenario of how a small community forged its own identity while carefully navigating a complex world of church hierarchies, institutions, and crossnational politics in Early Modern Rome. The article draws on a careful investigation of the extant primary sources found in the Roman archives and forms part of a larger doctoral dissertation.
- Subjects
RUTHENIANS; URBAN VIII, Pope, 1568-1644; RUTHENIAN Byzantine rite (Catholic Church); HISTORY
- Publication
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2018, p137
- ISSN
2039-2362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13138/2039-2362/1794