599
edits
Changes
m
{{churches}}*[[List of Metropolitans of Kiev]]
no edit summary
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://orthodox.org.ua/eng UOC]
}}
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==
Only the UOC-MP is currently in [[full communion]] with the [[Church of Russia]] and the remainder of the mainstream Orthodox Church.
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>
===Orthodox-Eastern Catholic divisions===
In 2004, there were 10,310 Ukrainian Orthodox and 3,328 [[Eastern Catholic Churches]] Greek Catholic (UGCC) congregations registered in Ukraine.<ref>[http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050630/40819891.html Ukraine: Conflict between Orthodoxy and Greek Catholicism]</ref>
==Structure of the Church==
#Diocese of Kremenchuk
#Diocese of Kryvyi Rih (1996)
#Diocese of Kiev (Kyiv (Kiev) (988)
#Diocese of Luhansk (1944)
#Diocese of Lviv (1156)
===Primate===
# [[Volodymyr (Sabodan)]], metropolitan of Kyiv Kiev and all Ukraine, [[Primate]] (Predstoyatel) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
===Diocesan bishops===
===Auxiliary bishops===
# Mykolaj (Hrokh), archbishop of Bilohorod (Metropolis of KyivKiev) (1992)# Pavel (Lebid), archbishop of Vyshhorod (Metropolis of KyivKiev), [[superior]] of [[Kiev-Pechersk Lavra]] (1997)
# Onufriy (Lehkyi), archbishop of Izyum (Diocese of Kharkiv) (2000)
# Volodymyr (Moroz), archbishop of Pochaiv (Metropolis of KyivKiev), superior of [[Pochaev Lavra of the Dormition of the Theotokos|Pochaiv Lavra]] (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 Makiyivka (Diocese of Donetsk) (2007)
# Serafym (Demyaniv), bishop of Yahotyn (Metropolis of KyivKiev) (2007)# Alexander (Drabynko), bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi (Metropolis of KyivKiev), secretary of the Metropolitan of Kyiv Kiev (2007)
===Retired bishops===
# 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]]
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 Orthodox Church of Canada blesses the use of a select number of books from the Kievan Patriarchate as Ukrainian translations. [http://uocc.ca/pdf/documents/Blessing%20of%20Books.PDF] 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://pravoslavye.org.ua/ Orthodox Ukraine], website of UOC press 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.
{{churches}}
[[Category:Jurisdictions|Ukraine]]
[[fr:Église d'Ukraine (Patriarcat de Moscou)]]
[[ro:Biserica Ortodoxă a Ucrainei]]