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The Board of Agreement of 1649 and 1650 demanded that only Orthodox people could hold office.

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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
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None of the provided sources addresses the Board of Agreement of 1649-1650 or its demand that only Orthodox people could hold office. The only related source, a Diocese of Lublin-Chełm history, covers 1649 Cossack agreements on Orthodox churches but says nothing about office-holding, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted.

What was said

… So, of course, like Ukraine, one was to include the areas of Kiev, Chernigov, and Bratslav in areas under the Cossack control. Only Orthodox people could hold office. The unions were dissolved and its property granted to the Orthodox Church. The Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine had a guaranteed seat in the Polish Senate. …
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What we found

Context. The claim's wording tracks the claimant's passage, which names the Board of Agreement and calls its items 'demands'; the extraction is faithful, so the claim is graded as stated.

Context. The Orthodoxwiki Diocese of Lublin-Chełm entry describes 1649 Cossack agreements that restored Orthodox churches and reestablished a diocese, but it does not mention any requirement about who could hold office.[1]

Context. The Parliament of England and Britannica sources concern different bodies and periods (English 1649-1650 acts, Ottoman-era Orthodoxy) and do not address the Ukrainian Board of Agreement, so they do not bear on the referent.[2][3][4]

Sources

4 sources: 4 not rated

  1. 1Diocese of Lublin-Chełmorthodoxwiki.org · not rated · cited for: context
  2. 2Religion and belief: Key dates 1604 to 1689parliament.uk · not rated · cited for: context
  3. 3List of ordinances and acts of the Parliament of England, 1642–1660 - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
  4. 4Eastern Orthodoxy - Ottoman Rule, 1453-1821 | Britannicabritannica.com · not rated · cited for: context

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