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*Church of In 2010 there were 11,791 canonical and 5,710 non-canonical Orthodox congregations in Ukraine (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) (which this article covers)*, and 3,599 Greek Catholic congregations<ref>[[Church https://risu.org.ua/en/index/resourses/statistics/ukr2010 Religious Organizations in Ukraine as of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate)]] (UOC-KP)*[[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]1 January, 2010] (UAOC)</ref>
Only the UOC-MP is currently in As of 1 January 2018 there were 12,064 congregations under [[full communionMoscow Patriarchate]] with the jurisdiction, 5,855 independent congregations that were in October accepted into [[Church of RussiaEcumenical Patriarchate]] , 200 non-canonical Orthodox congregations, and the remainder 3,765 Greek Catholic congregations<ref>[https://risu.org.ua/ua/index/resourses/statistics/ukr_2018/70440/ Religious Organizations in Ukraine as of the mainstream Orthodox Church1 January, 2018 (in ukrainian)]</ref>.
Church of Ukraine in 2007 has 40<ref>http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/2007/08/23/1626.html , http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/istoriya_eparhiy_0 (in ukrainian).</ref> [[diocese|dioceses]] (eparchies): #Diocese of BerdianskBerdyansk<ref>Transliteration of cities according to [[w:Administrative divisions of Ukraine]].</ref> (established in 2007)
#Diocese of Mukachiv (9 century)
# Feodor (Hayun), archbishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Horodotsk (1992)# Yefrem (Kytsay), archbishop of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol (1996)# Fylyp (Osadchenko), archbishop of Poltava and Kremenchuh Myrhorod (2001)# Panteleymon Panteleimon (Romanovsky), bishop of Kirovohrad and Novoarchanhelsk Novomyrhorod (1992)# Ipolyt (Khylko), bishop of Khust and Vynohradiv (1992)# Huriy (Kuzmenko), bishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynsk (1994)
There are also These Orthodox churches have frequently maintained good relations with all the Orthodox Church jurisdictions in Ukraine. As examples, both North American jurisdictions have former priests of the three major Orthodox jurisdictions in their respective Churches, and the Ukrainian parishes outside Orthodox Church of Ukraine in dioceses Canada blesses the use of a select number of books from the Kievan Patriarchate as Ukrainian translations. [[Moscow Patriarchate]http://uocc.ca/pdf/documents/Blessing%20of%20Books.PDF].
{{churches}}*[[List of Metropolitans of Kiev]]
→External links: interwiki
independence=1990 |
recognition= 1990 by [[Church of Russia]] |
primate=[[Volodymyr Onuphrius (SabodanBerezovsky) of Kiev|Metr. VolodymyrOnuphrius]]|
hq=Kiev, Ukraine|
territory=Ukraine|
possessions= N/A|
language=[[Church Slavonic]], & Ukrainian|
music=[[Kyivan Kievan Chant]]|
calendar=[[Julian Calendar|Julian]]|
population=35,000,000|
website=[http://pravoslavyeorthodox.org.ua/ eng UOC-MP]
}}
The '''Church of Ukraine''' is an [[autonomy|autonomous]] Orthodox church whose [[primate]] is confirmed by the [[Russian Orthodox Church of Russia]]. Its history extends to the introduction of Christianity into Kievan Rus' with the [[baptism]] of Prince St. [[Vladimir of Kiev]] and his people in 988, known as the [[Baptism of Rus']]. Its current primate is His Beatitude [[Volodymyr Onufriy (SabodanBerezovkyi) of Kiev|Volodymyr (Sabodan)]] , (who resides at the [[Monastery of the Kiev Caves|Kiev Pechersk Lavra]], which is the heartbeat of Ukrainian Orthodoxy), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine. Its autonomy is currently not recognized in international Orthodox gatherings.
==History==
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=== Autocephaly ===
6 January 2018 Ukrainian bishops under [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] (including 2 former [[Moscow Patriarchate]] bishops who recognized Constantinople [[jurisdiction]] over Ukraine) recieved [[autocephaly]] for Church of Ukraine<ref>[https://www.ec-patr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=gr&id=2674&tla=gr H επίσημη απονομή του Τόμου Αυτοκεφαλίας στην εν Ουκρανία Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία]</ref>.
==Ukrainian Orthodox divisions==
:''Main article: [[Orthodox divisions in Ukraine]]''
Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine is currently divided into two main factions:
*Church of Ukraine (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) <!-->(which this article covers)</-->
*Church of Ukraine (OCU), autocephalous in full communion with Ecumenical Patriarchate
The Ukrainian Church with about 9.5 million faithful is under the canonical jurisdiction of Moscow; the two breakaway churches with 14.5 million faithful combined, developed after the fall of the Soviet Union.<ref>[http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=15841 A Schism in the Orthodox Church?] George Gilson. Spero News, August 01, 2008</ref>
In 2018 Ecumenical Patriarchate restored its canonical jurisdiction under Ukraine, accepted all bishops from [[Church of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate)]] (UOC-KP) and [[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] (UAOC), as well as 2 bishops from UOC-MP, and 6 January 2019 granted autocephaly for Church of Ukraine. Moscow Patriarchate didn't recognize this decision.
Currently UOC-MP is in [[full communion]] with the [[Image:KplChurch of Russia]] but not recognized by Ecumenical Patriarchate.JPG|right|thumb|Kiev Pechersk LavraAutocephalous OCU is in [[full communion]]:''Main article: with the [[Orthodox divisions in UkraineChurch of Constantinople]]''but not recognized by Moscow Patriarchate.
===Orthodox Christianity -Eastern Catholic divisions===In 2004, there were 10,310 Ukrainian Orthodox and 3,328 [[Eastern Catholic Churches]] Greek Catholic (UGCC) congregations registered in Ukraine is currently divided into three main factions.<ref>[http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050630/40819891.html Ukraine:Conflict between Orthodoxy and Greek Catholicism]</ref>
==Structure of the Church==
Church of Ukraine in 2007 has 42<ref>http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/2007/08/23/1626.html , http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/istoriya_eparhiy_0 (in ukrainian).</ref> [[diocese|dioceses]] (eparchies):
#Diocese of Bila Tserkva (1030th as Diocese of Yuriiv; re-established in 1994)
#Diocese of Cherkasy (1898)
#Diocese of Horlivka (1994)
#Diocese of Ivano-Frankivsk (1946)
#Diocese of Kahovka
#Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilsk (1795)
#Diocese of Kharkiv (1799; 1836)
#Diocese of Kherson (1775; 1837; 1991)
#Diocese of Khmelnytsk Khmelnytskyi (1795; 1990)
#Diocese of Khust (1994)
#Diocese of Kirovohrad (1947)
#Diocese of Konotop (1994)
#Diocese of Kremenchuk
#Diocese of Kryvyi Rih (1996)
#Diocese of Kiev (Kyiv (Kiev) (988)
#Diocese of Luhansk (1944)
#Diocese of Lviv (1156)
#Diocese of Mykolaiv (1992)
#Diocese of Nizhyn (2007)
#Diocese of Ternopil (1988)
#Diocese of Tulchyn (1994)
#Diocese of Uzhhorod and Mukacheve (9 century; 2007)
#Diocese of Vinnytsia (1933)
#Diocese of Volodymyr-Volynskyi (992; 1996)
==Current episcopacy==
By their rank<ref>In Ukrainian (and Russian) tradition "[[metropolitan]]" is higher status than "[[archbishop]]".</ref>.
The Church currently has 58 bishops (42 diocesan bishops, 12 vicar bishops, and 4 retired), which consists of 10 [[metropolitan]]s, 21 [[archbishop]]s, and 26 [[bishop]]s. There is also 8516 priests, and 443 deacons.[http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/node/227]
===Primate===
# [[Volodymyr (Sabodan)]], metropolitan of Kyiv Kiev and all Ukraine, [[Primate]] (Predstoyatel) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
===Diocesan bishops===
# Onufriy (Berezovkyi), metropolitan of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna (1990)
# Ilarion (Shukalo), metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol (1991)
# Antoniy (Fialko), metropolitan of Khmelnytsk Khmelnytskyi and Starokostiantyniv (1992)
# Mark (Petrovtsiy), archbishop of Sumy and Ohtyrka (1988)
# Ionafan (Yeletskykh), archbishop of Tulchyn and Bratslav (1989)
# Vasyliy (Zlatolynskyi), archbishop of Zaporizhia and Melitopol (1990)
# Serhiy (Hensytskyi), archbishop of Ternopil and Kremenetsk (1991)
# Feodor (Hayun), archbishop of Kamyanets'-Podilskyi and Horodotskyi (1992)
# Sofroniy (Dmytruk), archbishop of Cherkasy and Kaniv (1992)
# Vissarion (Stretovych), archbishop of Ovruch and Korosten (1992)
# Avhustyn (Markevych), archbishop of Lviv and Halych (1992)
# Anatoliy (Hladkyi), archbishop of Sarny and Polissia (1993)
# Huriy (Kuzmenko), archbishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynsk (1994)# Symeon (Shostatskyi), archbishop of Vinnytsia and MohylevMohyliv-Podilskyi (1996)# Yefrem (Kytsay), archbishop of Kryvoriz and Nikopol' (1996)
# Ioann (Siopko), archbishop of Kherson and Tavria (1996)
# Mytrofan (Yurchuk), archbishop of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav (2000)
# Inokentiy (Shestopal), bishop of Konotop and Hlukhiv (1996)
# Amvrosiy (Polikopa), bishop of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi (1998)
# Ahapit (Bevtsyk), bishop of Mukachevo Syeverodonets' and Uzhhorod Starobil' (1998)# Panteleymon Panteleimon (Bashchuk), bishop of Olexandria and Svitlovodsk (2000)
# Mytrofan (Nikitin), bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk (2007)
# Yelysey (Ivanov), bishop of Berdiansk and Prymorsk (2007)
# Volodymyr (Melnyk), bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta (2007)
# Ilariy (Shyshkovskyi), bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk (2007)
# Panteleimon (Luhovyi), archimandrite (October 18, 2007), will be bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia (2007)
===Auxiliary bishops===
# Pavlo Mykolaj (Hrokh), archbishop of Bilohorod (Metropolis of Kiev) (1992)# Pavel (Lebid), archbishop of Vyshhorod (Metropolis of KyivKiev), governor-general [[superior]] of [[Kiev-Pechersk Lavra]] (1997)# Mykolay Onufriy (HrokhLehkyi), archbishop of Bilohorod Izyum (Metropolis Diocese of KyivKharkiv) (19922000)# Volodymyr (Moroz), archbishop of Pochaiv (Metropolis of KyivKiev), governor-general superior of [[Pochaev Lavra of the Dormition of the Theotokos|Pochaiv Lavra]] (2000)# Onufriy (Lehkyi), bishop of Izum (Diocese of Kharkiv) (2000)# Luka (Kovalenko), bishop of Vasylkiv (Metropolis of KyivKiev) (2005)
# Arseniy (Yakovenko), bishop of Sviatohirsk (Diocese of Horlivka) (2005)
# Meletiy (Yehorenko), bishop of Khotyn (Diocese of Chernivtsi) (2006)
# Oleksiy (Hrokha), bishop of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsk (Diocese of Odessa) (2006)
# Antoniy (Pakanych), bishop of Boryspil (Metropolis of KyivKiev) (2006)# Varnava (Filatov), bishop of Makiivka Makiyivka (Diocese of Donetsk) (2007)# Serafym (Demyaniv), bishop of Yahotyn (Metropolis of Kiev) (2007)# Alexander (Drabynko), bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi (Metropolis of Kiev), secretary of the Metropolitan of Kiev (2007)
===Retired bishops===
# Mefodiy (Petrovtsiy), ex -bishop of Khust and Vynohradiv (1994-1998)# Alipiy (Pohrebniak), schibishop<ref>Bishop in monastic schema.</ref>, ex -bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk (1991-1997)# Ipolyt (Khylko), ex-bishop of Khust and Vynohradiv (1992-2006)# Serhiy (Zaliznytskyi), schibishop, ex -bishop Serafim of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk (1994-2007) ==Monasteries==*[[Samara Desert-Nicholas Monastery]], Novomoskovsk, Ukraine.
==Ukrainian Orthodoxy abroad==
*[[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada]]
However, tensions have emerged recently with the expansion of UOC-KP parishes into North America outside of the jurisdictions of the already standing UOC.[http://saveouruoc.com/frontpage.html][http://www.saveouruoc.com/coopercity.html] There are also Ukrainian parishes outside of Ukraine in dioceses of [[Moscow Patriarchate]] [http://orthodox.org.ua/eng/node/54]. But even outside the Ukraine there are numerous splinter groups. These include*[[Autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America]] (AUOCA) which was formerly known as the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - Canonical and which claims its lineage through the [[Tomos ]] of Autonomy of 1924 given by the Orthodox Church of Poland.
==References==
==See also==
*[[Union of Brest-Litovsk]]
==External links==
*[http://www.orthodox.org.ua/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church], official website(Ukrainian, Russian)*[http://www.orthodox.org.ua/eng/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church], official website (English)*[http://pravoslavye.org.ua/ Orthodox Ukraine], website of UOC-MPpress service (Ukrainian, Russian)*[http://orthodoxy.org.ua/ Orthodoxy in Ukraine], UOC news website (Ukrainian, Russian)*[http://uaoc.org/ Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of North and South America and the Diaspora], official website (English, Ukrainian, Spanish)*[http://www.uaocamerica.org/ Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church of America], official website (English)*[http://www.ugcc.org.ua/ Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church], official website (English, Ukrainian, Russian)*[http://www.uocc.ca/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada], official website (English, Ukrainian)*[http://www.uocofusa.org/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States of America] , official website (English, Ukrainian)
*[http://www.risu.org.ua/eng/ Religious-Information Service of Ukraine], (Ukrainian, English, Russian, German, Italian)
* Interfax-Religion. [http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2192 Orthodox public concerned for threat of neo-nazism in Ukraine] 27 October, 2006.
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