Catholic Slavs


Catholic Slavs and Slavic Catholic are terms used for the historically and/or predominantly Catholic Slavic ethnic groups and nations and for the history of Catholicism among the Slavic peoples. The Catholic Slavic nations include all West Slavs as well as the westernmost South Slavs.

History

Middle Ages

Grand Duke Kazimierz IV of Lithuania and Poland initiated the Catholicization of Kiev early in his reign.

Early modern period

The Union of Brest saw the official establishment of the Uniate Church in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
The Habsburg Monarchy launched a programme of re-Catholicization in Bohemia and Moravia in the 1620s. The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Marča became Uniate in 1611, although it was part of a conflict between local Catholic and Orthodox clergy over the century.

Modern states

Modern countries in which historically Catholic Slavs formed a majority or otherwise such nation states include: