Special features of confessional life of the Roman Catholic Church in the Western regions of Ukraine in 1958–1964

Didukh Taras. Special features of confessional life of the Roman Catholic Church in the Western regions of Ukraine in 1958–1964. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2021;11(04): 101-112. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.04.011 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2021.11.04.011 https://zenodo.org/record/4766947 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2021; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 26.02.2021. Revised: 31.03.2021. Accepted: 30.04.2021. UDK 272 (477.83) “1958/1964” SPECIAL FEATURES OF CONFESSIONAL LIFE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE WESTERN REGIONS OF UKRAINE IN 1958–1964 Taras Didukh Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University M. Kryvonosa Str., bld. 2, city Ternopil, Ukraine, 46027 diduchtaras@ukr.net ORCID 0000-0002-4834-4369 Abstract The influence of the anti-religious campaign of the Soviet government on confessional life of the Roman Catholic Church is examined in the article, based on the study of special literature and involvement and complex analysis of the archival sources. Changes that took place in the Roman Catholic denomination due to pressure of the Soviet authorities on it, in particular reduction of its network in the western regions of Ukraine in 1958–1964, are analyzed. Key words: Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholic clergy; state and church relations; confessional life; anti-religious campaign