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Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

This article is about a disputed branch of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It is not to be confused with Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Moscow Patriarchate (disputed)
Emblem
TypeEastern Orthodox
OrientationSlavic Orthodox
PrimateMetropolitan Onuphrius
Bishops114[1] (53 governing)
Clerics12,551 (2022)[1]
Nuns2,727 [citation needed]
Parishes8,498 (2022)[2]
Monastics4,620 (2022)[2]
Monasteries161 (2022)[2]
LanguageChurch Slavonic, Ukrainian, Romanian
LiturgyByzantine Rite
TerritoryUkraine
Origin988 establishment of the Metropolitanate of Kyiv
1990 (self-rule within the Moscow Patriarchate)
Recognition27 May 2022[a]
24 March 2023[b]
Members6% of the Ukrainian Orthodox population[c]
Official websitechurch.ua
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC),[d] commonly referred to by the exonym Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP),[e] is an Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church was officially formed in 1990 in place of Ukrainian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, under the leadership of Metropolitan Filaret, as the Ukrainian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church.[9][6]

On 27 May 2022, following a church-wide council in Kyiv, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church announced its full independence and autonomy from the Moscow Patriarchate. The council made this decision in protest of the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and particularly in response to Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill's support for the invasion.[3]

The UOC is one of the two major Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical bodies in modern Ukraine, alongside the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). Since the Unification Council on 15 December 2018 which formed the OCU, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has disputed the claims by the Moscow Patriarchate of its ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the territory of Ukraine.[10][11][12][13]

The Russian Orthodox Church does not currently recognize a change in their relationship to the UOC.[14][5][15] However, in June 2023 ROC hierarch Metropolitan Leonid (Gorbachev) of Klin, scorned the UOC's decision to separate from the Moscow Patriarchate, saying, "When the opportunity presented itself to get out from under the wing of Moscow, they did it," and declared that the ROC would absorb the UOC's dioceses in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine.[16]

By late April 2023 the local/regional councils of (the city of) Lviv, Rivne Oblast, Volyn Oblast and Zhytomyr Oblast had voted to ban the activities of the UOC-MP.[17][18]

In October 2023, the Verkhovna Rada initiated steps to ban the UOC due to its alleged ties with Russia. This came in spite of the UOC claiming it had severed ties with Moscow following Russia's invasion.[19][20] However, the UOC has never declared full autocephaly from Moscow.[21]

  1. ^ a b "Звіт Керуючого справами Української Православної Церкви за 2022 рік". Ukrainian Orthodox Church. 24 December 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Report on the network of religious organizations as of January 1, 2022
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Ukrainian Orthodox Church-2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference yevtushenkoUOCMP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference 32207628ROC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ a b Yearbook of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Year 2022, pp. 1007-1026
  7. ^ "Georgian Patriarch Ilia II addressed the Patriarch of Constantinople in relation to the situation around the UOC". Ukrainian Orthodox Church. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  8. ^ "73% of parishioners of the UOC-Moscow Patriarchate no longer identify with this church" (PDF). sapiens.com.ua. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  9. ^ "Holy War: The Fight for Ukraine's Churches and Monasteries". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 11 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  10. ^ "Журнали засідання Священного Синоду Української Православної Церкви від 7 грудня 2018 року". 7 December 2018.
  11. ^ Synaxis of Hierarchs of The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
  12. ^ ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TAKES MOSCOW DOWN A PEG OVER CHURCH RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE orthodoxyindialogue.com, 2 July 2018.
  13. ^ Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: “As the Mother Church, it is reasonable to desire the restoration of unity for the divided ecclesiastical body in Ukraine” (The Homily by Patriarch Bartholomew after the memorial service for the late Metropolitan of Perge, Evangelos) The official website of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, 2 July 2018.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lavrapolitika88811 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference 3461927calendarROC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ "ROC hierarch: As we conquer Ukraine, we will take away UOC eparchies". Union of Orthodox Journalists. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  17. ^ Cite error: The named reference 7397375bannedUOC-MP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  18. ^ "The UOC-MP was banned in Zhytomyr Oblast". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 27 April 2023.
  19. ^ "Ukrainian parliament votes to ban Orthodox Church over alleged links with Russia". The Guardian. Reuters. 2023-10-20. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  20. ^ "Ukrainian Parliament Votes in Favor of Bill to Ban Churches Affiliated with Russia". Radiofreeeurope/Radioliberty.
  21. ^ Chervonenko, Vitaly (19 October 2023). "Рада дала старт забороні УПЦ МП. Як і коли це може запрацювати". BBC News Україна. BBC, Ukrainian service. Retrieved 23 December 2023.


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