Uniate

American  

[yoo-nee-it, -eyt] / ˈyu ni ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

Also Uniat

noun

1. a member of an Eastern church that is in union with the Roman Catholic Church, acknowledges the Roman pope as supreme in matters of faith, but maintains its own liturgy, discipline, and rite.

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Other Word Forms

• Uniatism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Uniate

1825–35; < Ukrainian uni ( y ) át, equivalent to úni ( ya ) the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1596), an acceptance of papal supremacy by some Orthodox clerics in Poland (< Polish uni ( j ) a < Latin ūniō union ) + -( y ) at ≪ Latin -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

This she said to a Uniate bishop at a garden party, adding, "I will stay until someone comes to take me away."

From Time Magazine Archive

The illegal Uniates, Rumanian Catholics of the Byzantine rite, have long been mistrusted by the Orthodox clergy and by superpatriots because of the Uniate breakaway from Orthodoxy to Catholicism in 1698.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hardest hit were the 1,560,000 Uniate Catholics, who are in union with Rome, but practice the Byzantine rite.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its predominantly Magyar population of 8,354,400 was 75% Roman Catholic, 20% Calvinist, and the balance Greek Orthodox, Uniate, Lutheran and Jewish.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Transylvania the Uniate church became an important medium by which Romanian national identity was fostered in the struggle against foreign assimilation.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.