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I found this little bit of history interesting.
"This was the setting for the emergence of a Lutheran movement among the Ukrainians of this region, in the 1920s. This movement was initially prompted by two key factors that were of compelling significance to those who eventually participated in the organization of what came to be called the Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession: 1) a desire to retain an Eastern Rite liturgy for worship, and not to be forced to use a rite and a language that was both culturally foreign and linguistically incomprehensible to the Byzantine-Slav inhabitants of Galicia; and 2) a rejection of arbitrary episcopal and papal authority – especially in matters pertaining to longstanding local and regional liturgical practice – which reflected a lack of respect for the conscience and faith needs of an entire people. In 1933, the Divine Liturgy of the Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession – a Lutheran order of service in the tradition of the Byzantine Rite – was published in Stanyslaviv (now the cityof Ivano-Frankivs’k in modern Ukraine). The publication and use of this service – as revised in accord with the evangelical principles of the Lutheran Reformation – was the most visible manifestation of the unique spirit and character of this new church body."
"This was the setting for the emergence of a Lutheran movement among the Ukrainians of this region, in the 1920s. This movement was initially prompted by two key factors that were of compelling significance to those who eventually participated in the organization of what came to be called the Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession: 1) a desire to retain an Eastern Rite liturgy for worship, and not to be forced to use a rite and a language that was both culturally foreign and linguistically incomprehensible to the Byzantine-Slav inhabitants of Galicia; and 2) a rejection of arbitrary episcopal and papal authority – especially in matters pertaining to longstanding local and regional liturgical practice – which reflected a lack of respect for the conscience and faith needs of an entire people. In 1933, the Divine Liturgy of the Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession – a Lutheran order of service in the tradition of the Byzantine Rite – was published in Stanyslaviv (now the cityof Ivano-Frankivs’k in modern Ukraine). The publication and use of this service – as revised in accord with the evangelical principles of the Lutheran Reformation – was the most visible manifestation of the unique spirit and character of this new church body."