87
edits
Changes
→Recognition and disputes
territory=Ukraine|
possessions=—|
language=Ukrainian,[[Church Slavonic]]|
music=[[Russian Chant]]|
calendar=[[Julian Calendar|Julian]]|
website=[https://www.pomisna.info/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church]
}}
The '''Orthodox Church of Ukraine''' is an autocephalous member of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] , whose terittory consists of Ukraine. The church is led by the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
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 [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate)]], the [[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] and two bishops of the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church|Ukrainian Orthodox Church (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 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" />.
As of 1 January 2021, there were 6981 parishes, 79 monasteries and 4572 priests associated with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine<ref>[https://dess.gov.ua/statistics-2020/ State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience]</ref>.
==Recognition and disputes==
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==