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*1854 Declaration of Immaculate Conception of Mary as [[dogma]].
*1870 Declaration of Papal Infallibility to be dogma at First Vatican Council.
*1894 ''[[w:Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae|Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae]]'' (''on the Reunion of Christendom''), an Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on June 20 1894, called for the reunion of Eastern and Western churches into the "Unity of the Faith", while also condemning Freemasonry; this was criticized by Ecumenical Patriarch Anthimus VII in 1895.*1946 State-sponsored synod held Ukraine dissolves the Union of Brest-Litovsk and integrates the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church into the Russian Orthodox Church, with Soviet authorities arresting resisters or deporting them to Siberia.
*1950 Declaration of Bodily Assumption of Mary as dogma.
*1962-1965 Vatican II institutes major reforms, especially liturgical, into Roman Catholic Church.
