Ukranian Orthodox Church

Ukranian orthodoxy has been different from the russian orthodox church. It was always more closer, too, to the west, for example, to constantinople or to tholic or even protestant influences. In seventeenth century ucranian orthodox priests were publishing their pamphlets against catholics in latin and using polpolpolemics in latin. Another interesting thing is, of course, the uniat church, the greek catholic church, which starts from the sixteenth century,. Which was supposed to unify catholicism and orthodoxy. But gradually it turned out to be one of thes, one of these elements of ucranean identity,