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On 28 October 1990,<ref>[http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1302845.html К 20-летию Благословенной Грамоты Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Алексия II о даровании Украинской Православной Церкви самостоятельности в управлении]: ″Определение фактически вступило в силу уже 28 октября 1990 года (когда Святейший Патриарх Алексий вручил занимавшему тогда Киевскую кафедру митрополиту Филарету соответствующую Грамоту)″</ref> the Moscow Patriarchate granted the Ukrainian Exarchate a status of a self–governing church under the jurisdiction of the ROC (but not the full [[Autonomy|autonomy]] as is understood in the ROC legal terminology).
Following Ukraine's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991, a national [[Synod|sobor]] of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was held on November 1–3.<ref name=finallyaref/> At the sobor, the bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church together with other clergy and lay delegates unanimously passed a resolution stating that henceforth the UOC would operate as an autocephalous church.<ref name="finallyaref">{{cite web|url=[[https://ukrainianweek.com/Society/64554|title=Filaret: A Statehood-oriented Patriarch|last=Losiev|first=Ihor|date=8 November 2012|website=[[The Ukrainian Week]]|access-date=6 January 2019}}</ref>. Filaret Denysenko, who had been the Metropolitan of Kyiv since 1968, was unaminously elected the acting primate of the new Church.
In January 1992 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church submitted a request of autocephaly to the Moscow Patriarch.<ref>[http://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/221781 After autocephaly], [[The Ukrainian Week]] (26 October 2018)<br>{{in lang|uk}} [https://m.gazeta.ua/articles/life/_vselenskij-patriarhat-oprilyudniv-dokumenti-na-pidtrimku-ukrayinskoyi-avtokefaliyi/859088 The Ecumenical Patriarchate unveiled documents in support of Ukrainian autocephaly], [[Gazeta.ua]] (14 September 2018)</ref>. Moscow responded by asking Filaret to resign and organized a rival synod which met in Kharkiv in May 1992 and replaced Filaret with [[Metropolitan Volodymyr (Viktor Sabodan)|Bishop Volodymyr (Sabodan)]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://spzh.news/en/istorija-i-kulytrua/42446-to-the-anniversary-of-kharkov-council-or-a-few-words-about-how-m-a-denisenko-was-expelled-from-churc|title=To the anniversary of Kharkov Council, or a few words about how M.A. Denisenko was "expelled" from Church|date=25 May 2017|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-11-21}}</ref>. Ultimately, the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] suspended, defrocked and anathematized Filaret.
