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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 [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Kiev Kyiv Patriarchate)]], the [[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] and two eparchies bishops of the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church|Ukrainian Orthodox 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 6 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 churchesAs of 1 January 2021, mainly due to the schismatic history of two of the bodies that merged in the new Churchthere were 6981 parishes, the Kyiv Patriarchate 79 monasteries and 4572 priests associated with the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Churchof Ukraine<ref>[https://dess.gov. As ua/statistics-2020/ State Service of January 2022, the autocephaly has been recognized by the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Alexandria and the Churches of Cyprus Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Greece. Eventually, the head Freedom of the [[Church of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate)]Conscience], Philaret, denied that his Church was dissolved and distanced himself from the new Church.</ref name="admit" />.

==Recognition and disputes==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 [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate)]], Philaret, denied that his Church was dissolved and distanced himself from the new Church.<ref name="admit" /> Unlike the [[OCA]], whose autocephaly is also not universally recognized in the Orthodox world but which is in communion with all local Churches, most local Orthodox Churches have not entered into communion with itthe Orthodox Church of Ukraine, still regarding its members as schismatic, while continuing to support Metropolitan Onufriy as the canonical primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). All Autocephalous Churches are in communion with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). ==Dioceses==* Metropolis of Kyiv* Metropolis of Lviv* Metropolis of Vinnytsia and Bar* Metropolis of Galicia* Metropolis of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna* Metropolis of Vinnytsia and Bratislav* Metropolis of Mykolayiv and Epiphany* Metropolis of Bogorodsk* Metropolis of Korsun* Metropolis of Ivano-Frankivsk and Halych* Metropolis of Lviv and Sokal* Metropolis of Simferopol and Crimea* Metropolis of Lutsk and Volyn* Metropolis of Donetsk and Mariupol* Metropolis of Cherkasy and Chyhyryn* Metropolis of Pereyaslav and Vyshneve* Archdiocese of Drohobych and Sambir* Archdiocese of Sumy and Okhtyrka* Archdiocese of Chernivtsi and Kitsman* Archdiocese of Vinnytsia and Tulchyn* Archdiocese of Ternopil and Kremenets* Archdiocese of Poltava and Kremenchug* Archdiocese of Rivne and Ostroh* Archdiocese of Chernihiv and Nizhyn* Archdiocese of Zhytomyr and Polissya* Archdiocese of Kharkiv and Izium* Archdiocese of Chernivtsi and Khotyn* Archdiocese of Chernivtsi and Khotyn* Archdiocese of Ternopil and Buchach* Diocese of Slavonia* Diocese of Uzhhorod and Khust* Diocese of Luhansk and Starobilsk* Diocese of Volodymyr-Volynsky and Turiysky* Diocese of Kropyvnytskyi and Golovanivskyi* Diocese of Ternopil and Terebovlya* Diocese of Belogorod* Diocese of Odessa and the Baltics* Diocese of Kolomyia and Kosiv* Diocese of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv* Diocese of Zaporizhia and Melitopol* Diocese of Uzhhorod and Zakarpattia* Diocese of Mukachevo and Carpathia* Diocese of Kherson and Kakhovka* Diocese of Zhytomyr and Ovruch* Diocese of Khmelnytsky and Kamyanets-Podilsky* Diocese of Rivne and Sarny* Diocese of Kherson and Tavria