Stačiatikių integracija į Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštijos visuomenę XV–XVI a.

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The issue of the union of the Church was resolved in a new way according to the conception proposed by O. Halecki: it was this historian who, having perceived the union of the Church in the Polish and Lithuanian states as a unique phenomenon and at the same time as a Europe-wide problem, assumed that the universal church union of Florence started to unfold in Lithuania in 1458 and turned into an entire process, which the author identified as a „rebirth”. The author competed this process in 1503.
Our investigation enabled us to consolidate O.Halecki’s conception from several aspects: first of all, a new analysis of the text of Misaeli’s letter showed that this was a complaint held by the orthodox believers who recognised the provision of the Church union of Florence regarding the self-will of Catholic bishops in realising the provisions of the union rather than the aspiration of the Church union. On the other hand, after 1503, more new phenomena concerning the process of the Church union than those previously discussed by O. Halecki appeared.
The investigation showed that the process of the universal Church union noted by O. Halecki in 1458–1503 was realised in the GDL seeking another model for the Church union, whose subjects were representatives of the Catholic camp. This could be conditionally named as the process of the informal local Church union in which subjects of the Catholic camp dominated: the Pope, the ruler, Catholic bishops and the bernardines. During the period of rule under Aleksandras, the aspiration of the orthodox camp was to heighten the realisation of the universal Church union, the initiator of which was Kiev Metropolitan J. Bulgarinovičius. Furthermore, the model of the Church union of Jonas Sapiega was proposed, which sought to create a universal unity prayer house for the communities of both confessions in Ikaźn. This model could be regarded as an attempt to find a compromise between the believers of both communities and to relate it to the models of the local Church union informally realised by the Catholic camp.