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was passed. Two Greek bishops, Ignatius Potzcy and Cyril 

 Terletzky, were sent to Rome to make their submission to the 

 Holy See. They declared that they desired to return to the 

 unity of the Catholic Church as it existed before the schism 

 of Constantinople in 1054. 



The Pope accepted their return to unity, and no change in 

 their Greek Rites was required — not even a change in their 

 calendar (the Old Style), which was then ten days and is now 

 thirteen days behind the New Style or Gregorian calendar. 

 The whole of the ancient Greek Catholic liturgy, service and 

 discipline — including the ordination of married men as priests 

 — was approved by Pope Clement VIII in the Bull "Magnus 

 Dominus," December 22, 1595, and was repeated in his Brief 

 "Benedictus Sit Pastor," of February 7, 1596, addressed to the 

 Ruthenian bishops and people. 



On the 6th day of October, 1596, the union between the 

 Eastern (Greek) Church and the Western (Roman) Church 

 was formally proclaimed and ratified throughout all the Ru- 

 thenian and Russian-speaking part of Poland. A large num- 

 ber of the Greek bishops and their priests and people immedi- 

 ately went over to union with Rome. Besides the bishops who 

 were present at the Council of Brest-Litovzk, the Bishop of 

 Kholm in 1597, the succeeding bishops under the jurisdiction 

 of Kieff during the following twenty-five years, the Bishop of 

 Munkach in 1646, the Bishop of Przemysl in 1691, the Metro- 

 politan of Lemberg in 1700, and their flocks, became obedient 

 to the Holy See, and the majority of all that vast reunion has 

 remained steadfast ever since. 



It numbers now in Austria-Hungary some 4,000,000 people 

 and is under the jurisdiction of seven Greek-Catholic bishops. 

 In Austria the dioceses are : Archdiocese of Lemberg, and 

 the Dioceses of Przemysl and Stanislau, all in Galicia, and 

 Kreutz (Crisium) in Croatia. In Hungary the dioceses are: 

 Munkach, Eperies and Hajdu-Dorogh, all in the north, near 

 the Carpathian mountains. They have now a flourishing press 

 and fine churches, seminaries and institutions, despite their 

 poverty and the fact that the Ruthenian nobility long ago gave 

 up its nationality and rite and became Polish. They also have 

 a Ruthenian Greek-Catholic college in Rome, on the Piazza 

 dei Monti, where many students are educated for the Greek 

 priesthood among the Ruthenians. 



