POSITION OF UNIATE AND ORTHODOX CHURCHES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100790003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 1, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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CENT ETM GROUP
111MITELL.IGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY
SUBJECT Position of U to and Orthodox Churchea
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2. Follow, this arrest, all. Uniate chu ches in Soviet territories t we closed
to their clergy. Countries affected were USSR Poland Latvia E. torte and
li15hop Xt cielskki . the last t eek-Catholic Oblate) bishop, who lived in
Soviet Polanc1, arrested on 24 June 19,46 togather with 30 embers of his
staff ( priests) In Pa~saemy' 1, The bishop and the others protested but
Were taken away by violence to an wilt{ ovn destination,
maehintau. ha l as great a share in the victory as the Soviet Army itself,, and
that they Co .unitt Party is the precursor of Russia's national res; rrsctiou,,
The Aw oeapoalous Church, -they state, cannot remain indifferent Wh>4n Holy
Rusaiaes fats is in the balance. Similar cordial relations with l cal
Cc r f.st l ender a are reported from eastern Ukrain?, Georgia White.Riassia..
and the Iowa v area.
Orthodox cl orgy belonging to the : u~ocophola0t mats-Cbtu h arts beginning to
rem the Communist Party with more'
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religious : ropaganda by the Communists has ceased entirely and pr. eats preach
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5 A new settlement is expected between State and Church, This will not affect
the present nlog e' position of the Church, but will give it more finacisl
support though Co unitt Party local units,
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