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{{church|
name=Church of Ukraine[[Image:Logo_PCU_en.png|thumb|center]]|
founder=[[Apostle Andrew]], St. [[Vladimir of Kiev]]||
independence=2019|
recognition=2019 by [[Church of Constantinople|Constantinople]] |
primate=[[Metropolitan Epiphanius I of Kiev and all Ukraine]]|
hq=Kiev, Ukraine|
territory=Ukraine|
possessions=—|
language=[[Church Slavonic]]|
music=[[Russian Chant]]|
calendar=[[Julian Calendar|Julian]]|
population=17,000,000 [http://kiis.com.ua/?lang=ukr&cat=reports&id=1052&page=1]|
website=[https://www.pomisna.info/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church]
}}
The '''Orthodox Church of Ukraine''' is an autocephalous member of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] established by Patriarch [[Bartholomew I]] in 2019.<ref name="ocu" /> 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. The council succeeded to unite the previously divided [Church of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate)]], the [[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] and two eparchies of the [[Church of Ukraine (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 5 January 2019, a Tomos of Autocephaly was granted to the new Church by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.