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The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Православна церква України, romanized: Pravoslavna tserkva Ukrainy; [14] [15] OCU), also called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, [16] is a partially recognized Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UOGCC) is an unregistered Eastern Independent Catholic religious movement that was established by Basilian priests, predominantly from Slovakia, who schismated from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and declared the creation of the new church in 2009 based in Pidhirtsi, Ukraine.
Construction of Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv, 30 July 2009. The project of the cathedral of architect Mykola Levchuk won the first prize at the All-Ukrainian review-competition of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine for the best architectural work of the last three years in the nomination "Projects of 2000" [1] [October 27, 2002, bishops of the UGCC.
Since the late 1980s, Soviet, and later Ukrainian, politicians promised to return the building to the Orthodox Church. Due to various schisms and factions within the Church the return was postponed as all Orthodox and the Greek-Catholic Churches lay claim to it. Although all the Orthodox churches have been allowed to conduct services at ...
The last Greek Catholic congregation of any size, the Arabic-speaking Melkite Greek Catholic Church (approx. 1.5 million), predominantly resident in Syria and with a large diaspora, is descended from a split within the far more numerous Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (approx. 4.3 million), when in 1729 a claimant to the Antiochene See ...
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has third most members in allegiance among the population of Ukraine after the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church predominates in three western oblasts of Ukraine, including the majority of the population of Lviv , but ...
The Synod of Lviv [a] or the Council of Lviv (Ukrainian: Львівський собор, romanized: Lvivskyi sobor; Russian: Львовский собор, romanized: Lvovsky sobor) was a March 1946 synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church that declared the 1596 Union of Brest to be annulled, thereby unifying the church with the Russian Orthodox Church.
St. George's Cathedral (Ukrainian: Собор святого Юра, translit. Sobor sviatoho Yura) is a baroque-rococo cathedral located in the city of Lviv, the historic capital of western Ukraine.