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− | {{church|
| + | '''Church of Ukraine''' may refer to: |
− | name= Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)|
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− | founder= [[Apostle Andrew]]; St. [[Vladimir of Kiev]]|
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− | independence=1990 |
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− | recognition= 1990 by [[Church of Russia]] |
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− | primate=[[Volodymyr (Sabodan) of Kiev|Metr. Volodymyr]]|
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− | hq=Kiev, Ukraine|
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− | territory=Ukraine|
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− | possessions= N/A|
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− | language=[[Church Slavonic]], & Ukrainian|
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− | music=[[Kyivan Chant]]|
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− | calendar=[[Julian Calendar|Julian]]|
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− | population=35,000,000|
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− | website=[http://orthodox.org.ua/eng UOC]
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− | }}
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− | The '''Church of Ukraine''' is an [[autonomy|autonomous]] Orthodox church whose [[primate]] is confirmed by the [[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 (Sabodan) 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.
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− | ==History==
| + | * the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church]], an autonomous church under the [[Russian Orthodox Church|Church of Russia]] established in 1990. |
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| + | * the [[Orthodox Church of Ukraine]], an autocephalous church proclaimed in 2019, whose autocephaly and canonicity is not universally recognized. |
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− | ==Ukrainian Orthodox divisions==
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− | :''Main article: [[Orthodox divisions in Ukraine]]''
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− | Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine is currently divided into three main factions:
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− | *Church of Ukraine (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) (which this article covers)
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− | *[[Church of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate)]] (UOC-KP)
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− | *[[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] (UAOC) | |
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− | Only the UOC-MP is currently in [[full communion]] with the [[Church of Russia]] and the remainder of the mainstream Orthodox Church.
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− | ===Orthodox-Uniate divisions===
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− | In 2004, there were 10,310 Ukrainian Orthodox and 3,328 [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Uniate]] Greek Catholic (UGCC) congregations registered in Ukraine.<ref>[http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050630/40819891.html Ukraine: Conflict between Orthodoxy and Greek Catholicism]</ref>
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− | ==Structure of the Church==
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− | 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): | |
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− | #Diocese of Berdyansk<ref>Transliteration of cities according to [[w:Administrative divisions of Ukraine]].</ref> (established in 2007)
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− | #Diocese of Bila Tserkva (1030th as Diocese of Yuriiv; re-established in 1994)
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− | #Diocese of Cherkasy (1898)
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− | #Diocese of Chernihiv (988)
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− | #Diocese of Chernivtsi (1401; 1783)
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− | #Diocese of Dnipropetrovsk (1775; 1803; 1926)
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− | #Diocese of Donetsk (1991)
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− | #Diocese of Horlivka (1994)
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− | #Diocese of Ivano-Frankivsk (1946)
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− | #Diocese of Kahovka
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− | #Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilsk (1795)
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− | #Diocese of Kharkiv (1799; 1836)
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− | #Diocese of Kherson (1775; 1837; 1991)
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− | #Diocese of Khmelnytskyi (1795; 1990)
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− | #Diocese of Khust (1994)
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− | #Diocese of Kirovohrad (1947)
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− | #Diocese of Konotop (1994)
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− | #Diocese of Kremenchuk
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− | #Diocese of Kryvyi Rih (1996)
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− | #Diocese of Kyiv (Kiev) (988)
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− | #Diocese of Luhansk (1944)
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− | #Diocese of Lviv (1156)
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− | #Diocese of Mykolaiv (1992)
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− | #Diocese of Nizhyn (2007)
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− | #Diocese of Odessa (1873; 1991)
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− | #Diocese of Olexandria (2007)
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− | #Diocese of Ovruch (1993)
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− | #Diocese of Poltava (1054; 1803)
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− | #Diocese of Rivne (1990)
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− | #Diocese of Sarny (1999)
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− | #Diocese of Severodonetsk (2007)
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− | #Diocese of Shepetivka (2007)
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− | #Diocese of Simferopol (1859)
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− | #Diocese of Sumy (1945)
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− | #Diocese of Ternopil (1988)
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− | #Diocese of Tulchyn (1994)
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− | #Diocese of Uzhhorod and Mukacheve (9 century; 2007)
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− | #Diocese of Vinnytsia (1933)
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− | #Diocese of Volodymyr-Volynskyi (992; 1996)
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− | #Diocese of Volyn (992; 1996)
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− | #Diocese of Zaporizhia (1992)
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− | #Diocese of Zhytomyr (1799; 1944)
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− | ==Current episcopacy==
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− | By their rank<ref>In Ukrainian (and Russian) tradition "[[metropolitan]]" is higher status than "[[archbishop]]".</ref>.
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− | 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]
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− | ===Primate===
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− | # [[Volodymyr (Sabodan)]], metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine, [[Primate]] (Predstoyatel) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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− | ===Diocesan bishops===
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− | # Nykodym (Rusnak), metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv (1961)
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− | # Iryney (Seredniy), metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad (1975)
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− | # Agafangel (Savvin), metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail (1975)
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− | # Lazar (Shvets), metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea (1980)
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− | # Ioannykiy (Kobzev), metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk (1990)
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− | # Nyfont (Solodukha), metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn (1990)
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− | # Onufriy (Berezovkyi), metropolitan of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna (1990)
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− | # Ilarion (Shukalo), metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol (1991)
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− | # Antoniy (Fialko), metropolitan of Khmelnytskyi and Starokostiantyniv (1992)
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− | # Mark (Petrovtsiy), archbishop of Sumy and Ohtyrka (1988)
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− | # Ionafan (Yeletskykh), archbishop of Tulchyn and Bratslav (1989)
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− | # Varfolomiy (Vashchuk), archbishop of Rivne and Ostroh (1990)
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− | # Vasyliy (Zlatolynskyi), archbishop of Zaporizhia and Melitopol (1990)
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− | # Serhiy (Hensytskyi), archbishop of Ternopil and Kremenetsk (1991)
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− | # Feodor (Hayun), archbishop of Kamyanets'-Podilskyi and Horodotskyi (1992)
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− | # Sofroniy (Dmytruk), archbishop of Cherkasy and Kaniv (1992)
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− | # Vissarion (Stretovych), archbishop of Ovruch and Korosten (1992)
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− | # Pytyrym (Starynskyi), archbishop of Mykolaiv and Voznesensk (1992)
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− | # Avhustyn (Markevych), archbishop of Lviv and Halych (1992)
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− | # Anatoliy (Hladkyi), archbishop of Sarny and Polissia (1993)
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− | # Huriy (Kuzmenko), archbishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynsk (1994)
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− | # Symeon (Shostatskyi), archbishop of Vinnytsia and Mohyliv-Podilskyi (1996)
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− | # Yefrem (Kytsay), archbishop of Kryvoriz and Nikopol' (1996)
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− | # Ioann (Siopko), archbishop of Kherson and Tavria (1996)
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− | # Mytrofan (Yurchuk), archbishop of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav (2000)
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− | # Fylyp (Osadchenko), archbishop of Poltava and Myrhorod (2001)
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− | # Panteleimon (Romanovsky), bishop of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod (1992)
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− | # Inokentiy (Shestopal), bishop of Konotop and Hlukhiv (1996)
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− | # Amvrosiy (Polikopa), bishop of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi (1998)
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− | # Ahapit (Bevtsyk), bishop of Syeverodonets' and Starobil' (1998)
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− | # Panteleimon (Bashchuk), bishop of Olexandria and Svitlovodsk (2000)
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− | # Mytrofan (Nikitin), bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk (2007)
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− | # Yelysey (Ivanov), bishop of Berdiansk and Prymorsk (2007)
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− | # Nykodym (Horenko), bishop of Volodymyr-Volynsk and Kovel (2007)
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− | # Iryney (Semko), bishop of Nizhyn and Baturyn (2007)
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− | # Volodymyr (Melnyk), bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta (2007)
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− | # Ilariy (Shyshkovskyi), bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk (2007)
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− | # Panteleimon (Luhovyi), bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia (2007)
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− | ===Auxiliary bishops===
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− | # Mykolaj (Hrokh), archbishop of Bilohorod (Metropolis of Kyiv) (1992)
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− | # Pavel (Lebid), archbishop of Vyshhorod (Metropolis of Kyiv), [[superior]] of [[Kiev-Pechersk Lavra]] (1997)
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− | # Onufriy (Lehkyi), archbishop of Izyum (Diocese of Kharkiv) (2000)
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− | # Volodymyr (Moroz), archbishop of Pochaiv (Metropolis of Kyiv), superior of [[Pochaiv Lavra]] (2000)
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− | # Luka (Kovalenko), bishop of Vasylkiv (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2005)
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− | # Arseniy (Yakovenko), bishop of Sviatohirsk (Diocese of Horlivka) (2005)
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− | # Meletiy (Yehorenko), bishop of Khotyn (Diocese of Chernivtsi) (2006)
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− | # Oleksiy (Hrokha), bishop of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsk (Diocese of Odessa) (2006)
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− | # Antoniy (Pakanych), bishop of Boryspil (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2006)
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− | # Varnava (Filatov), bishop of Makiyivka (Diocese of Donetsk) (2007)
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− | # Serafym (Demyaniv), bishop of Yahotyn (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2007)
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− | # Alexander (Drabynko), bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi (Metropolis of Kyiv), secretary of the Metropolitan of Kyiv (2007)
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− | ===Retired bishops===
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− | # Mefodiy (Petrovtsiy), ex-bishop of Khust and Vynohradiv (1994-1998)
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− | # Alipiy (Pohrebniak), schibishop<ref>Bishop in monastic schema.</ref>, ex-bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk (1991-1997)
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− | # Ipolyt (Khylko), ex-bishop of Khust and Vynohradiv (1992-2006)
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− | # Serhiy (Zaliznytskyi), schibishop, ex-bishop Serafim of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk (1994-2007)
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− | ==Ukrainian Orthodoxy abroad==
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− | Orthodox churches of the Ukrainian tradition outside of Ukraine are mainly cared for by the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]], including:
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− | *[[Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA]] | |
− | *[[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada]]
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− | There are also Ukrainian parishes outside of Ukraine in dioceses of [[Moscow Patriarchate]] [http://orthodox.org.ua/eng/node/54].
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− | But even outside the Ukraine there are splinter groups. These include
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− | *[[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.
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− | ==References==
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− | <references/>
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− | ==See also==
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− | *[[Union of Brest-Litovsk]]
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− | *[[List of Metropolitans of Kiev]]
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− | ==External links==
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− | *[http://www.orthodox.org.ua/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church], official website (Ukrainian, Russian)
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− | *[http://www.orthodox.org.ua/eng/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church], official website (English)
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− | *[http://pravoslavye.org.ua/ Orthodox Ukraine], website of UOC press service (Ukrainian, Russian)
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− | *[http://orthodoxy.org.ua/ Orthodoxy in Ukraine], UOC news website (Ukrainian, Russian)
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− | *[http://www.risu.org.ua/eng/ Religious-Information Service of Ukraine], (Ukrainian, English, Russian, German, Italian)
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− | [[Category:Jurisdictions|Ukraine]]
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− | [[ro:Biserica Ortodoxă a Ucrainei]]
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