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| Type | Eastern Orthodox |
| Orientation | Slavic Orthodox |
| Primate | Metropolitan Onufriy |
| Bishops | 114[1] (53 governing) |
| Clerics | 12,551 (2022)[1] |
| Nuns | 2,727[citation needed] |
| Parishes | 8,097 (May 2024)[2] |
| Monastics | 4,620 (2022)[3] |
| Monasteries | 161 (2022)[3] |
| Language | Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, Romanian |
| Liturgy | Byzantine Rite |
| Territory | Ukraine |
| Origin | 988 establishment of the Metropolitanate of Kyiv 1990 (self-rule within the Moscow Patriarchate) |
| Recognition | 27 May 2022[a] 24 March 2023[b] |
| Members | 6% of the Ukrainian Orthodox population[c] |
| Official website | church uoc-news |
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| Overview |
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 the Ukrainian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), under the leadership of Metropolitan Filaret, as the Ukrainian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church.[10][7]
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.[4] The UOC (did not and) has never declared full autocephaly from the Russian Orthodox Church.[11]
The UOC is the largest Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical body 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.[12][13][14][15]
The Russian Orthodox Church does not currently recognize a change in their relationship to the UOC.[16][6][17] 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.[18]
On 20 August 2024, the Verkhovna Rada banned the Russian Orthodox Church by adopting the Law of Ukraine "On the Protection of the Constitutional Order in the Field of Activities of Religious Organizations". Ukrainian religious organizations affiliated with the ROC will have nine months to break off its relations with the Patriarchate of Moscow in accordance with the Canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- ^ a b "Звіт Керуючого справами Української Православної Церкви за 2022 рік". Ukrainian Orthodox Church. 24 December 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ "There are still more than 8,000 churches in the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine: where are the most". Ukrainska Pravda – Zhyttia (in Ukrainian). 3 May 2024. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ a b Report on the network of religious organizations as of January 1, 2022
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- ^ "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.
- ^ "73% of parishioners of the UOC-Moscow Patriarchate no longer identify with this church" (PDF). sapiens.com.ua. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
- ^ "Holy War: The Fight for Ukraine's Churches and Monasteries". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 11 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Журнали засідання Священного Синоду Української Православної Церкви від 7 грудня 2018 року". 7 December 2018.
- ^ Synaxis of Hierarchs of The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
- ^ ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TAKES MOSCOW DOWN A PEG OVER CHURCH RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE orthodoxyindialogue.com, 2 July 2018.
- ^ 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.
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