Definitions for Uniate

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Uniate U·ni·ate

Spelling: [yoo-nee-it, -eyt]

IPA: /ˈyu ni ɪt, -ˌeɪt/

Uniate is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in Uniate (aeintu).

Definitions for Uniate

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.

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 Examples for Uniate

Its membership in the 1950s, after the incorporation of the Uniate church, was estimated at more than 15 million.

Some Uniate clergy and laymen resisted and were persecuted and imprisoned.