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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 Church insists on its name being just the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, [19] stating that it is the sole canonical body of Orthodox Christians in the country, [19] a Ukrainian "local church" (Ukrainian: Помісна Церква). The church rejects being labeled "Russian" or "Moscow." [20]
Today, there are three national Ukrainian churches: the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Additionally, there is a smaller number of Byzantine rite adherents in the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church who were dominated by the Kingdom of Hungary in the past.
The Ukrainian Orthodox in Western Europe were divided between the two bishops, with Archbishop Nicanor supervising the remaining parishes in Germany and Metropolitan Polycarp, who had headed the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine during the war years under the oversight of Metropolitan Dionysius (Waledynski) of Warsaw ...
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC; Ukrainian: Українська автокефальна православна церква (УАПЦ), romanized: Ukrayinska avtokefalna pravoslavna tserkva (UAPTs)) was one of the three major Eastern Orthodox churches in Ukraine in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, together with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC ...
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Canonical (1924–) with canonical origin from the Polish Orthodox Church; Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church (2008–), an independent Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church that was established from the official Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which self-identifies as both Orthodox and Catholic
This church was, until 11 October 2018, the only Orthodox church in Ukraine recognized by other Orthodox churches. The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), led by Metropolitan Makariy , which was independent, having been founded in 1921 following the establishment of the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic and having survived the ...
The Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, 25-27 October 1990, established the autonomous and self-governing Ukrainian Orthodox Church, with the Diocese of Kyiv as its primatial diocese. From 2009 to 2013, the eparchy was split between right-bank (Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi) and left-bank (Kyiv and the all Ukraine).