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At the synod in Brest six out of eight Orthodox bishops—including the Metropolitan of Kiev, Michael Ragoza—supported the union, but the remaining three bishops from the extreme west of Ukraine and eastern Poland (Lviv, Lutsk, and Przemyśl) would not join the union until later (1700, 1702, and 1693 respectively). The Cossack forces of Ukraine felt the union was a betrayal to the Polish rulers and united with the Russian Empire to fight against Poland and all who supported the empire, including the Greek-Catholics.
In 1620 Patriarch [[Theophanes III of Jerusalem]] arrived in Kiev and consecrated an Orthodox hierarchy, including [[Job (Boretsky) of Kiev|Job (Boretsky)]] as Metropolitan of Kiev, for the church and thus there emerged a situation of both Orthodox and Eastern Catholic bishops coexisting in the same territory in Ukraine from that point onwards.
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