Original publication: Isaievych, Iaroslav. “Eastern Rite Lay Confraternities in Ukraine and Byelorussia.” Confraternitas 2 (2): 2010. 3-6. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v2i2.13544. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.