The Lviv Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine may soon be absorbed by the Catholic Church of Poland. There are active behind-the-scenes discussions, TASS reports with reference to the press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.
“As it became known, the Conference of Polish Bishops, the central governing body of the Catholic Church in Poland, is seriously discussing the issue of absorbing the Lviv Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine,” TASS quoted SVR as saying.
The Foreign Intelligence Service press service clarifies that in order to put this idea into practice, it is necessary to “adjust” the provisions of the concordat concluded between Warsaw and the Vatican in 1993 and ratified by the Sejm in 1998.
In particular, this means changes in the sixth article of the treaty, lifting the ban on the activities of Polish Catholic priests outside of Poland. This also involves giving the Lviv archbishop a seat in the Polish Bishops’ Conference, the Foreign Intelligence Service reports.
Earlier, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said:
“According to incoming information, the Polish authorities are consistently implementing plans to appropriate the western regions of Ukraine. <…> Polish steps are more and more clearly audible not only in the corridors of Ukrainian state institutions, but also under church vaults”, TASS quotes Naryshkin.
It is specified that the “extinguishing” of any circumstances from the concordat with Poland’s recognition of the eastern borders established after the Second World War, which opens the way to the east for Warsaw, has become on the agenda in Poland.
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