What is the "Unia Model"?

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In the past several months, I’ve noticed reference to the “Unia Model” that is extinct. Can someone please explain what the “Unia Model” was? What were its characteristics?

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I could be wrong, but I think it’s a reference to the Union of Brest.
 
This idea of the model and its extinction perhaps refers to the Balamand declaration,
east2west.org/balamand.htm,
which states:
" With regard to the method which has been called “uniatism,” it was stated at Freising (June 1990) that “we reject it as a method for the search for unity because it is opposed to the common tradition of our Churches.”

Balamand does not give an explicit definition of “uniatism” Just what it is that is being rejected is unfortunately left open to interpretation and thus to polemical exaggeration. However, the basic point is this:

"Because of the way in which Catholics and Orthodox once again consider each other in their relationship to the mystery of the Church and discover each other once again as sister Churches, this form of “missionary apostolate” described above, and which has been called “uniatism,” can no longer be accepted either as a method to be followed nor as a model of the unity our Churches are seeking. "

Setting aside discussion of the merit of historical charges and counter-charges, we simply are seeking cooperate reunion; we do not proselytize each other’s people or particular churches.

There is a nice article from a priest of the BCC that addresses the historical problem embedded in the statement, while providing an interesting outlook.
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3236/is_2_34/ai_n28699493/?tag=content;col1

I am curious about the references of course. In reality, far more than any model of unia, it is the Balamand declaration that seems extinct.
 
one of the lesser councils not long after Trent deemed that the Unia were to be encouraged to latinize, to be a means of migrating the Eastern Orthodox into the Roman Rite.

That, my friend, is the heart of the Unia model historically. The Eastern Churches as stepping stones to liturgical unity by sole use of the Roman Rite.

From that same council on, it was permitted for the Easterner to move to the Roman Rite, but not for the Roman to move East. That prohibition was eroded by the 1940’s, as evidenced by the numbers of American Roman Rite individuals accepted into the Ukrainian and Ruthenian Churches post WWII, reaching its height around 1970. VII formally abolished the one-way only policy, and has made the process easier.
 

Though the UNIA considers all people of African ancestry to be de facto members, it is only after formally joining the organization that one will have access to a copy of its constitution. The UNIA model is essentially an African one. Men organize men in the African Legionaires, Women organize women in the Black Cross Nurses, and they both organize the youth in the Cadets and other ancillary wings such as the UNIA Band, Motor Corps and Civil Service. The graduates of the Course of Afrian Philosophy were the leaders of the organization.​

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