[5] Within Byzantine Rite Lutheranism, the calendar of saints includes persons esteemed in Eastern Christianity, such as John Chrysostom and Nestor the Chronicler, as well as those specific to the Lutheran Church, such as Lucas Cranach the Elder and Martin Luther.
[1] The Byzantine Lutheran Rite includes the filioque in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, albeit placing it in brackets.
[8] In the region of Galicia, Eastern Lutherans were persecuted by the communist régime, which instituted a policy of state atheism.
[10] Theodor Yarchuk, a priest who was a major leader in the Ukrainian Lutheran Church of the Augsburg Confession was tortured and killed in Stanislaviv by communist authorities.
[11] During this time of the persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union, property of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church was expropriated.