Rusyn Religious Foodways

Religious

The Byzantine rite — Greek Catholic in most Rusyn communities, Orthodox in many others, and both with long histories — sets the eating year through Wednesday and Friday abstinence, the Nativity Fast, Great Lent and the Dormition Fast, and through the feasts that end them. ⚠ RELIGION IS NOT ETHNICITY: Rusyns are Greek Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant, and Byzantine-rite Christians in these regions are also Ukrainian, Romanian, Hungarian and Slovak.