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'''Church of Ukraine''' may refer to:
name= Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)|
 
founder= [[Apostle Andrew]]; St. [[Vladimir of Kiev]]|
 
independence=1990 |
 
recognition= 1990 by [[Church of Russia]] |
 
primate=[[Volodymyr (Sabodan) of Kiev|Metr. Volodymyr]]|
 
hq=Kiev, Ukraine|
 
territory=Ukraine|
 
possessions= N/A|
 
language=[[Church Slavonic]], & Ukrainian|
 
music=[[Kyivan Chant]]|
 
calendar=[[Julian Calendar|Julian]]|
 
population=35,000,000|
 
website=[http://orthodox.org.ua/eng UOC]
 
}}
 
The '''Church of Ukraine''' is an [[autonomy|autonomous]] Orthodox church whose [[primate]] is confirmed by the [[Church of Russia]].  Its history extends to the introduction of Christianity into Kievan Rus' with the [[baptism]] of Prince St. [[Vladimir of Kiev]] and his people in 988, known as the [[Baptism of Rus']].  Its current primate is His Beatitude [[Volodymyr (Sabodan) of Kiev|Volodymyr (Sabodan)]] (who resides at the [[Monastery of the Kiev Caves|Kiev Pechersk Lavra]], which is the heartbeat of Ukrainian Orthodoxy), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.  Its autonomy is currently not recognized in international Orthodox gatherings.
 
  
==History==
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* the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church]], an autonomous church under the [[Russian Orthodox Church|Church of Russia]] established in 1990.
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* the [[Orthodox Church of Ukraine]], an autocephalous church proclaimed in 2019, whose autocephaly and canonicity is not universally recognized.
 
 
==Ukrainian Orthodox divisions==
 
:''Main article:  [[Orthodox divisions in Ukraine]]''
 
 
 
Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine is currently divided into three main factions:
 
 
 
*Church of Ukraine (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) (which this article covers)
 
*[[Church of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate)]] (UOC-KP)
 
*[[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] (UAOC)
 
 
 
Only the UOC-MP is currently in [[full communion]] with the [[Church of Russia]] and the remainder of the mainstream Orthodox Church.
 
 
 
==Structure of the Church==
 
Church of Ukraine in 2007 has 42<ref>http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/2007/08/23/1626.html , http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/istoriya_eparhiy_0 (in ukrainian).</ref> [[diocese|dioceses]] (eparchies):
 
 
 
#Diocese of Berdyansk<ref>Transliteration of cities according to [[w:Administrative divisions of Ukraine]].</ref> (established in 2007)
 
#Diocese of Bila Tserkva (1030th as Diocese of Yuriiv; re-established in 1994)
 
#Diocese of Cherkasy (1898)
 
#Diocese of Chernihiv (988)
 
#Diocese of Chernivtsi (1401; 1783)
 
#Diocese of Dnipropetrovsk (1775; 1803; 1926)
 
#Diocese of Donetsk (1991)
 
#Diocese of Horlivka (1994)
 
#Diocese of Ivano-Frankivsk (1946)
 
#Diocese of Kahovka
 
#Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilsk (1795)
 
#Diocese of Kharkiv (1799; 1836)
 
#Diocese of Kherson (1775; 1837; 1991)
 
#Diocese of Khmelnytskyi (1795; 1990)
 
#Diocese of Khust (1994)
 
#Diocese of Kirovohrad (1947)
 
#Diocese of Konotop (1994)
 
#Diocese of Kremenchuk
 
#Diocese of Kryvyi Rih (1996)
 
#Diocese of Kyiv (Kiev) (988)
 
#Diocese of Luhansk (1944)
 
#Diocese of Lviv (1156)
 
#Diocese of Mykolaiv (1992)
 
#Diocese of Nizhyn (2007)
 
#Diocese of Odessa (1873; 1991)
 
#Diocese of Olexandria (2007)
 
#Diocese of Ovruch (1993)
 
#Diocese of Poltava (1054; 1803)
 
#Diocese of Rivne (1990)
 
#Diocese of Sarny (1999)
 
#Diocese of Severodonetsk (2007)
 
#Diocese of Shepetivka (2007)
 
#Diocese of Simferopol (1859)
 
#Diocese of Sumy (1945)
 
#Diocese of Ternopil (1988)
 
#Diocese of Tulchyn (1994)
 
#Diocese of Uzhhorod and Mukacheve (9 century; 2007)
 
#Diocese of Vinnytsia (1933)
 
#Diocese of Volodymyr-Volynskyi (992; 1996)
 
#Diocese of Volyn (992; 1996)
 
#Diocese of Zaporizhia (1992)
 
#Diocese of Zhytomyr (1799; 1944)
 
 
 
==Current episcopacy==
 
By their rank<ref>In Ukrainian (and Russian) tradition "[[metropolitan]]" is higher status than "[[archbishop]]".</ref>.
 
The Church currently has 58 bishops (42 diocesan bishops, 12 vicar bishops, and 4 retired), which consists of 10 [[metropolitan]]s, 21 [[archbishop]]s, and 26 [[bishop]]s.  There is also 8516 priests, and 443 deacons.[http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/node/227]
 
 
 
===Primate===
 
# [[Volodymyr (Sabodan)]], metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine, [[Primate]] (Predstoyatel) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
 
 
 
===Diocesan bishops===
 
# Nykodym (Rusnak), metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv (1961)
 
# Iryney (Seredniy), metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad (1975)
 
# Agafangel (Savvin), metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail (1975)
 
# Lazar (Shvets), metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea (1980)
 
# Ioannykiy (Kobzev), metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk (1990)
 
# Nyfont (Solodukha), metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn (1990)
 
# Onufriy (Berezovkyi), metropolitan of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna (1990)
 
# Ilarion (Shukalo), metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol (1991)
 
# Antoniy (Fialko), metropolitan of Khmelnytskyi and Starokostiantyniv (1992)
 
# Mark (Petrovtsiy), archbishop of Sumy and Ohtyrka (1988)
 
# Ionafan (Yeletskykh), archbishop of Tulchyn and Bratslav (1989)
 
# Varfolomiy (Vashchuk), archbishop of Rivne and Ostroh (1990)
 
# Vasyliy (Zlatolynskyi), archbishop of Zaporizhia and Melitopol (1990)
 
# Serhiy (Hensytskyi), archbishop of Ternopil and Kremenetsk (1991)
 
# Feodor (Hayun), archbishop of Kamyanets'-Podilskyi and Horodotskyi (1992)
 
# Sofroniy (Dmytruk), archbishop of Cherkasy and Kaniv (1992)
 
# Vissarion (Stretovych), archbishop of Ovruch and Korosten (1992)
 
# Pytyrym (Starynskyi), archbishop of Mykolaiv and Voznesensk (1992)
 
# Avhustyn (Markevych), archbishop of Lviv and Halych (1992)
 
# Anatoliy (Hladkyi), archbishop of Sarny and Polissia (1993)
 
# Huriy (Kuzmenko), archbishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynsk (1994)
 
# Symeon (Shostatskyi), archbishop of Vinnytsia and Mohyliv-Podilskyi (1996)
 
# Yefrem (Kytsay), archbishop of Kryvoriz and Nikopol' (1996)
 
# Ioann (Siopko), archbishop of Kherson and Tavria (1996)
 
# Mytrofan (Yurchuk), archbishop of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav (2000)
 
# Fylyp (Osadchenko), archbishop of Poltava and Myrhorod (2001)
 
# Panteleimon (Romanovsky), bishop of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod (1992)
 
# Inokentiy (Shestopal), bishop of Konotop and Hlukhiv (1996)
 
# Amvrosiy (Polikopa), bishop of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi (1998)
 
# Ahapit (Bevtsyk), bishop of Syeverodonets' and Starobil' (1998)
 
# Panteleimon (Bashchuk), bishop of Olexandria and Svitlovodsk (2000)
 
# Mytrofan (Nikitin), bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk (2007)
 
# Yelysey (Ivanov), bishop of Berdiansk and Prymorsk (2007)
 
# Nykodym (Horenko), bishop of Volodymyr-Volynsk and Kovel (2007)
 
# Iryney (Semko), bishop of Nizhyn and Baturyn (2007)
 
# Volodymyr (Melnyk), bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta (2007)
 
# Ilariy (Shyshkovskyi), bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk (2007)
 
# Panteleimon (Luhovyi), bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia (2007)
 
 
 
===Auxiliary bishops===
 
# Mykolaj (Hrokh), archbishop of Bilohorod (Metropolis of Kyiv) (1992)
 
# Pavel (Lebid), archbishop of Vyshhorod (Metropolis of Kyiv), [[superior]] of [[Kiev-Pechersk Lavra]] (1997)
 
# Onufriy (Lehkyi), archbishop of Izyum (Diocese of Kharkiv) (2000)
 
# Volodymyr (Moroz), archbishop of Pochaiv (Metropolis of Kyiv), superior of [[Pochaiv Lavra]] (2000)
 
# Luka (Kovalenko), bishop of Vasylkiv (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2005)
 
# Arseniy (Yakovenko), bishop of Sviatohirsk (Diocese of Horlivka) (2005)
 
# Meletiy (Yehorenko), bishop of Khotyn (Diocese of Chernivtsi) (2006)
 
# Oleksiy (Hrokha), bishop of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsk (Diocese of Odessa) (2006)
 
# Antoniy (Pakanych), bishop of Boryspil (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2006)
 
# Varnava (Filatov), bishop of Makiyivka (Diocese of Donetsk) (2007)
 
# Serafym (Demyaniv), bishop of Yahotyn (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2007)
 
# Alexander (Drabynko), bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi (Metropolis of Kyiv), secretary of the Metropolitan of Kyiv (2007)
 
 
 
===Retired bishops===
 
# Mefodiy (Petrovtsiy), ex-bishop of Khust and Vynohradiv (1994-1998)
 
# Alipiy (Pohrebniak), schibishop<ref>Bishop in monastic schema.</ref>, ex-bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk (1991-1997)
 
# Ipolyt (Khylko), ex-bishop of Khust and Vynohradiv (1992-2006)
 
# Serhiy (Zaliznytskyi), schibishop, ex-bishop Serafim of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk (1994-2007)
 
 
 
==Ukrainian Orthodoxy abroad==
 
Orthodox churches of the Ukrainian tradition outside of Ukraine are mainly cared for by the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]], including:
 
*[[Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA]]
 
*[[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada]]
 
 
 
There are also Ukrainian parishes outside of Ukraine in dioceses of [[Moscow Patriarchate]].
 
 
 
But even outside the Ukraine there are splinter groups.  These include
 
*[[Autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America]] (AUOCA) which was formerly known as the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - Canonical and which claims its lineage through the Tomos of Autonomy of 1924 given by the Orthodox Church of Poland.
 
 
 
==References==
 
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==See also==
 
*[[Union of Brest-Litovsk]]
 
 
 
{{churches}}
 
 
 
==External links==
 
*[http://www.orthodox.org.ua/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church], official website (Ukrainian, Russian)
 
*[http://www.orthodox.org.ua/eng/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church], official website (English)
 
*[http://pravoslavye.org.ua/ Orthodox Ukraine], website of UOC press service (Ukrainian, Russian)
 
*[http://orthodoxy.org.ua/ Orthodoxy in Ukraine], UOC news website (Ukrainian, Russian)
 
 
 
*[http://www.risu.org.ua/eng/ Religious-Information Service of Ukraine], (Ukrainian, English, Russian, German, Italian)
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category:Jurisdictions|Ukraine]]
 
 
 
[[ro:Biserica Ortodoxă a Ucrainei]]
 

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