Полеміка Іллі Мороховського із Мелетієм Смотрицьким навколо примату Папи Римського

Purpose. To research the contents of polemic of uniate theologian Elijah Morochowski with Meletiy Smotrycki in the work “Paregoria albo utulenie uszczypliwego lamentu mniemaney Cerkwie Swiętey Wschodniey zmyślonego Theophila Ortologa”, concerned the question of primacy of the Pope. Methods. In the article it is used the historical and cultural, hermeneutics, comparative methods. Results. The polemical works of Elijah Morochowski reveal the importance of the primacy of the Pope in religious controversy in Rich Pospolyta in XVI‒XVII centuries. The report deals with the different ways of interpretations of the historical figures, events, the rules of Church councils by the uniate theologian Elijah Morochowski and apologist of orthodox church Meletiy Smotrycki. It is researched the cultural contacnts catholics, uniates with the orthodox theologians in the Rich Pospolyta, that is fixed in polemical texts of Ukrainian, Polish literatures. It is analyzed the sources of argumentation, the ways of communication of the controversialist with the opponent, pointed to means of persuasion, the methods of interpretation of Holy Bible.