Orthodox Church of Ukraine

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The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Православна церква України, romanized: Pravoslavna tserkva Ukrainy; OCU), also called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, is a partially recognized Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine. It was granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on 6 January 2019. Some of the Eastern Orthodox churches recognize the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as the only canonical successor of the Metropolis of Kyiv. The church was established under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople by a unification council that convened in Kyiv on 15 December 2018, following which Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I granted it a tomos of autocephaly. The unification council united the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church into the OCU. Two bishops formerly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) also joined. The unification council elected the Metropolitan...

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