Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1990-2018)

St. Andrew Church in Kiev

The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church ( Ukrainian Українська автокефальна православна церква ) was an autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine. In 2016, around 1.4% of the population belonged to it. Their seat was in Kiev . In 2018, the competing churches in Ukraine were subordinated to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul, against the resistance of the Moscow Patriarchate , with the aim of uniting them with one another. On December 15, 2018, a synod decided to merge the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, which had existed until then. See also Orthodox Church of Ukraine

In 1990 the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was officially re-established in Ukraine and united with the foreign eparchies. Patriarch Mstyslaw (Skrypnyk) from the USA became head.

In 1992 she joined the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate , this common church was also formally headed by Patriarch Mstyslaw. In 1993 the two churches separated again after the death of Patriarch Mstyslaw, and Dymytrij Jarema became the new patriarch .

In 1995 the eparchies in the USA, Western Europe and Australia broke away from the Ukrainian Church and formed their own churches. They submitted to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and thus belonged to a canonical church .

In 1997, the bishops of some Russian dioceses founded an independent Russian True Orthodox Church .

As of 2015, the Church has had no senior metropolitan.

Structures

The church was organized in 14 eparchies with 1185 parishes. According to various surveys, it included between 0.8% and 2.4% of the population. The following was unevenly distributed regionally: While 4.5% supported the church in the central region (Oblast Poltava , Cherkassy , Kirovohrad ), it was only 0.3% on the Black Sea coast (Oblast Odessa , Mykolaiv , Cherson ).

The church was led by a patriarchal council, which consisted of the metropolitan and two bishops, prelates and lay people. The central cathedral was St. Andrew's Church in Kiev. It had 12 monasteries.

Canon law situation

The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church has not been recognized by other Orthodox churches.

Since 2015 she has endeavored in talks with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kiev Patriarchate) to merge the churches.

See also

• Orthodoxy in Ukraine

literature

• Thomas Bremer : The orthodox churches with non-canonical status (Ukraine) . In: Thomas Bremer, Hacik Rafi Gazer , Christian Lange (ed.): The orthodox churches of the Byzantine tradition . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-534-23816-3 , pp. 115-120 .

Web links

• Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Religious Information Service of Ukraine, 2011 (English)
• Parish Maria Schutz - Krefeld (Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - Exarchate Western Europe)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from the Department of Religious and Nationality Affairs of Ukraine from January 1, 2014 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Релігійна самоідентичність і молитва в Україні Representative survey of the Institute of Sociology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, excluding oblasts Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea (Ukrainian), in 2010 it was about 1.1% of the population
3. ↑ ^{a b} Більшість населення України відносить себе переважно до Православної церкви Киселення України відносить себе переважно до Православної церкви Киселення України відносить January 25, 2014 initiative of the Ukrainian Democratic Service for the Ukrainian Democratic Service to December 15, 2015. Archived version from April 14, 2015