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==Ukrainian Orthodox divisions==
:''Main article: [[Orthodox divisions in Ukraine]]''
==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 Bila Tserkva (1030th as Diocese of Yuriiv; re-established in 1994)
#Diocese of Cherkasy (1898)
#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 Khmelnytsk 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 Ternopil (1988)
#Diocese of Tulchyn (1994)
#Diocese of Uzhhorod and Mukacheve (9 century; 2007)
#Diocese of Vinnytsia (1933)
#Diocese of Volodymyr-Volynskyi (992; 1996)
==Current episcopacy==
By their rank<ref>In Ukrainian (and Russian) tradition "[[metropolitan]]" is higher status than "[[archbishop]]".</ref>. The Church curently 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===
# Onufriy (Berezovkyi), metropolitan of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna (1990)
# Ilarion (Shukalo), metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol (1991)
# Antoniy (Fialko), metropolitan of Khmelnytsk Khmelnytskyi and Starokostiantyniv (1992)
# Mark (Petrovtsiy), archbishop of Sumy and Ohtyrka (1988)
# Ionafan (Yeletskykh), archbishop of Tulchyn and Bratslav (1989)
# 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)
# 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 MohylevMohyliv-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)
# Inokentiy (Shestopal), bishop of Konotop and Hlukhiv (1996)
# Amvrosiy (Polikopa), bishop of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi (1998)
# Ahapit (Bevtsyk), bishop of Mukachevo Syeverodonets' and Uzhhorod Starobil' (1998)# Panteleymon Panteleimon (Bashchuk), bishop of Olexandria and Svitlovodsk (2000)
# Mytrofan (Nikitin), bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk (2007)
# Yelysey (Ivanov), bishop of Berdiansk and Prymorsk (2007)
# Volodymyr (Melnyk), bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta (2007)
# Ilariy (Shyshkovskyi), bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk (2007)
# Panteleimon (Luhovyi), archimandrite (October 18, 2007), will be bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia (2007)
===Auxiliary bishops===
# Pavlo Mykolaj (Hrokh), archbishop of Bilohorod (Metropolis of Kyiv) (1992)# Pavel (Lebid), archbishop of Vyshhorod (Metropolis of Kyiv), governor-general [[superior]] of [[Kiev-Pechersk Lavra]] (1997)# Mykolay Onufriy (HrokhLehkyi), archbishop of Bilohorod Izyum (Metropolis Diocese of KyivKharkiv) (19922000)# Volodymyr (Moroz), archbishop of Pochaiv (Metropolis of Kyiv), governor-general superior of [[Pochaiv Lavra]] (2000)# Onufriy (Lehkyi), bishop of Izum (Diocese of Kharkiv) (2000)
# Luka (Kovalenko), bishop of Vasylkiv (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2005)
# Arseniy (Yakovenko), bishop of Sviatohirsk (Diocese of Horlivka) (2005)
# Oleksiy (Hrokha), bishop of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsk (Diocese of Odessa) (2006)
# Antoniy (Pakanych), bishop of Boryspil (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2006)
# Varnava (Filatov), bishop of Makiivka 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==
*[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)
