Edward D. Wynot Jr. Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Annotation

The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History shows the adaptability of an Orthodox community whose members are a religious and ethnic minority in a predominantly Roman Catholic country populated by ethnic Poles. It features a triangular relationship among the Orthodox and Catholic hierarchies and the secular state of Poland throughout the changes of government. A secondary interrelationship involves the tense relationship between ethnic Poles on one hand, and minority Ukrainians and Belarusans on the other. As a ';prisoner' of its own history and strangers in its own land, the Polish Orthodox Church faces a constant struggle for survival.