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The '''Orthodox Church of Ukraine''' is an autocephalous member of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] established by Patriarch [[Bartholomew I]] in 2019.<ref name="ocu" /> The Church emerged from a unification council which was convoked by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and took place in the St. Sophia's Cathedral on 15 December 2018<ref name="council" />. The council succeeded to unite the previously divided [[Church of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate)]], the [[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] and two eparchies of the [[Church of Ukraine (Moscow Patriarchate)]] that is [[autonomy|autonomous]] under the [[Church of Russia]].<ref name="ocu" />. The rest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate rejected the unification council. On 5 January 2019, a Tomos of Autocephaly was granted to the new Church by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople<ref name="tomos" />.
The autocephaly has been met with resistance by the other autocephalous churches, mainly due to the schismatic history of two of the bodies that merged in the new Church, the Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. As of January 2022, the autocephaly has been recognized by the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Alexandria and the Churches of Cyprus and Greece. Eventually, the head of the [[Church of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate)]], Philaret, denied that his Church was dissolved and distanced himself from the new Church.<ref name="admit" />