Upadek parafii w Chorupniku. Przyczynek do dziejów reformacji w Polsce

The article takes up the question of the fall of the Latin parish in Chorupnik that belonged to the former Chełm diocese. The parish church in Chorupnik was taken away by Protestants in the second half of the 16th century. Attempts at recovering its property possessions by incorporating it into the neighboring parish in Gorzków, and then actions taken both by the Gorzków parish priest and the bishop and his chapter were unsuccessful. A detailed study of the attempt to recover the property of one of the parishes that disappeared during the Reformation, is situated within the context of the relations between the nobility and the clergy in the Counter-Reformation period. Research on the social, legal and economic relations in a local dimension is important for understanding the mechanisms of the mass departure of the nobility to reformed denominations, and then of their return to the Catholic Church.