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Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

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{{cleanupThe '''Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church''' (UAOC) is the third largest Orthodox Church in Ukraine after the autonomous [[Church of Ukraine|Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] under the Moscow Patriarchate and the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the [[NPOVKyiv Patriarchate]]. The UAOC, intro expandedwhich has its origins in the early 20th century in Ukraine, spelling. Not enough context givenhas preserved the vision of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian nationalism in the Ukrainian Diaspora during the Soviet era and now in independent Ukraine itself.}}
The '''Ukrainian Autocephalous ==Founding and Dissolution of the UAOC==For centuries what became the UAOC was part of the Orthodox Churchin Ukraine, which was founded by the Church of Constantinople and remained part of it prior to the independence of the [[Church of Russia|Church of Rus''' ]]. After the transfer of the seat of the metropolitans of Kiev from Kiev to cities further east and north (and eventually to Moscow) the territories of what today is one Ukraine came under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which had jurisdiction over the region returned to Constantinople and eventually to the Ukrainian Catholic Church after the [[Union of Brest]]. It wasn't until the big three Orthodox Churches in conquest of Ukraineby the rising Russian Empire that its Church was reunited with the Church of Rus'.
==History==In 1921 Due to the cultural differences that had developed as a result of the Polish occupation and the Union of Brest the reunion of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine with the Church of Rus' was opposed by some Ukrainian Orthodox, who began advocating the establishment of an All-independent Church of Ukraine Sobor (Synod) created . Although suppressed by the Russian Empire, following its collapse in the '''early 20th century supporters of an independent Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church''' held an All-Ukrainian Council ('''UAOC'sobor'') in Kiev and ordained Metropolitan Vasyl (Lypkivsky) as head of that on 5 May 1920 declared the UAOC. The UAOC was at that point independent of all other churches. It obtained its autocephalous status a few years later in 1924 when Gregory VII, Patriarch establishment of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch, issued a tomos re-establishing the Kievan Rus-Ukrainian) Metropolitan bishop see as an Autocephalous independent Local Orthodox Church. The responsibility of establishing a new Synod of Bishops was given to the Metropolitan-Archbishop of Warsaw, Dionisij Waledynskyjin Ukraine.
In wake The UAOC sought for hierarchical support, but none of the break up hierarchs serving in Ukraine would join the Church and consequently in 1921 a group of clergy and laymen together "consecrated" Archpriest [[Vasyl Lypkivskyj]] as a bishop, enthroning him as Metropolitan of the Russian Empire some national groups sought autonomy from MoscowKyiv and All Ukraine. The Soviet government persecuted He consequently "consecrated" other bishops for Ukraine and dioceses of the UAOC; formed in Canada and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) also prevented the UAOC United States by Ukrainian nationalists and converts from establishing their ecclesiastical order for some timeUkrainian Catholicism. Between (These eparchies later became the wars [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada]] and the UAOC was tolerated by [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the ROC and it was allowed to exist on USA|Ukrainian Soviet territoryOrthodox Church of the USA]].)
On October 8The UAOC in Ukraine was dissolved following the Bolshevik occupation and annexation of eastern and central Ukraine in the 1920s. In 1924, 1942 Archbishop Nikanor however, the Ecumenical Patriarchate unilaterally rescinded the transfer of the Orthodox Church in what today is western Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland to the Church of Rus' and established it as the independent [[Mstyslav (Skrypnyk) Church of Kiev|Bishop MstyslavPoland]] . Although operating on the territory of the UAOC interwar Poland and Metropolitan Oleksiy (Hromadsky) of officially called the Ukrainian Autonomous Polish Orthodox Church entered into an Act of Union at the Pochaev Lavra uniting these two church hierarchies. German occupation authorities and pro-Russian hierarchs of the Autonomous , this new Local Orthodox Church convinced Metropolitan Oleksiy to withdraw his signature. Metropolitan Oleksiy 's flock was executed primarily Ukrainian and Belorussian in Volynia on May 7, 1943 by UPA insurgentscomposition.
The Russian Orthodox Church regained its general monopoly after ==Restoration of the UAOC==During World War II in the German government strongly encouraged Ukrainian SSR. Most of the other churches were forced out and Belorussian nationalism as the a counterweight to Polish and Soviet government only recognized the Moscow Patriarchate, revived at the time resistance and influence in Eastern Europe. It was this that allowed dissident hierarchs of the Russian Revolution, as the only legitimate church Polish Orthodox Church in most of what had been southeastern Poland and the Soviet Union. Many accused it of being a puppet of western USSR to declare the Communist Party. After the suspicious death restoration of Tikhon of Moscow these autocephalic churches sought to remain independent; something that Moscow tolerated until after World War Two when many Ukrainian Orthodox clergy not affiliated with Moscow fled to Germany or the United States. The UAOC in 1942. Bishop [[UkrainePolycarp (Sikorsky) of Lutsk]] was then liquidated by the Soviets with the assistance , formerly of the Patriarchate Church of Moscow. Any UAOC hierarchs or clergy who remained in Ukraine and refused to join Poland, became the Russian Church were executed or sent first legitimately consecrated hierarch to concentration camps. A few years later serve as primate of the same thing happened to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Western Ukraine and TranscarpathiaUAOC (its pre-WWII hierarchical consecrations had all been invalid under canon law).
Re-gaining ==UAOC in the Diaspora==The restoration of the state recongnition UAOC in Ukraine proved to be brief as the late 1980s, region was occupied by the Red Army in the 1940s and annexed to the Soviet Union. Those hierarchs and clergy of the UAOC who remained in Soviet Ukraine were forced to submit to the [[Moscow Patriarchate]] or else sent into internal exile or executed. Several of the Church was initially ruled from abroad by Patriarch Mstyslav 's hierarchs fled the advance of the Red Army and then following his death ended up in 1993 re-established itself as an independent church, following the brief union with Ukrainian Diaspora in the UOC-KPWest, among them Metropolitan Polycarp.
Geographically In the church operates almost exclusively following years the UAOC existed only in the western Galcian provinces Diaspora, with minute support elsewhere. The church used to have a lot of parishes abroad in scattered across the Ukrainian emigre communities globe in Canada Australia, North and South America, and Western Europe. It, like other jurisdictions present in the United StatesWest following the Bolshevik Revolution, drifted in and out of communion with world Orthodoxy. However, these parishes now form Following the separate churches (whom are now under the Ecumenical Patriarchate repose of Constantinople)Metropolitan Polycarp in France in 1953, the Archbishop [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church Mstyslav (Skrypnyk) of CanadaKiev|Mstyslav (Skrypnyk)]] and the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA]]. There is a parish Parma became primate of the church UAOC in Canberra, Australia1969.
==SourceUAOC Returns to Ukraine==In 1990 the weakening of the central government of the Soviet Union allowed for the restoration of the UAOC in Ukraine for the first time since World War II. Not long after the UAOC accepted into its communion hierarchs and clergy led by Metropolitan [[Philaret (Denysenko) of Kiev|Philaret of Kiev]] of the Moscow Patriarchate and elected the 92-year old Metropolitan Mstyslav as Patriarch of Kyiv and All Ukraine, enthroning him on 6 November 1990. Following the repose of Patriarch Mstyslav in 1993 two new Patriarchs of Kyiv, [[Volodomyr (Romaniuk)]] and [[Dymytrii (Yarema) of Kyiv|Dymytriy (Yarema)]], were elected by factions of the UAOC, those under Patriarch Volodymyr largely consisting of supporters of the former Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Philaret who together founded the Kyiv Patriarchate of Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It was around this time that both of the UAOC's dioceses in North America together with large parts of its Western European and Australian flocks left the Church to join the Ecumenical Patriarchate. After the death of Patriarch Dymytriy in 2000 the UAOC elected Archbishop [[Mefodiy (Kudryakov) of Kiev|Methodius]] of Ternopil' as Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine. Although the UAOC has established new dioceses in the Ukrainian Diaspora, it remains on friendly terms with its daughter churches under the Ecumenical Patriarchate and has attempted itself to establish communion with Constantinople in the hopes of having it establish a universally recognized, independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The UAOC today is concentrated in western Ukraine and has its headquarters at the historic Church of St. Andrew in Kiev. ==External Links and Sources==*[http://www.uaoc.info/ua/ Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church] (Official Website of the UAOC)*[http://uaoc.org/ Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the USA] (Official Website of the UAOCUSA)*[http://www.uocc.ca/en-ca/about/history/ History of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada] (Official Website of the UOCC)*[http://www.ukrainianorthodoxchurchusa.org/history.html History of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA] (Official Website of the UOCUSA)*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Autocephalous_Orthodox_Church Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church] (Wikipedia)*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Mstyslav_%28Skrypnyk%29 Mstyslav (Skrypnyk)] (Wikipedia Article)*[http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polikarp_(Sikorski) Polikarp (Sikorski)] (Polish-language Wikipedia) [[fr:Église orthodoxe autocéphale ukrainienne]][[ro:Biserica Ortodoxă Autocefală Ucraineană]]  [[Category:Jurisdictions]]
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