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Eparchies Of The Orthodox Church Of Ukraine
, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is subdivided into forty-five eparchy, eparchies: www.pomisna.info Existing eparchies Liquidated or not registered * Eparchy of Bogorodsk (UOC-KP) - abandoned * Eparchy of Belgorod (UOC-KP) - abandoned * Eparchy of Dnipropetr ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthodox Church Of Ukraine
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (; OCU), also called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It was granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on . Some of the Eastern Orthodox Churches recognize the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as the only canonical successor of the Metropolis of Kyiv, while the Catholic Church recognizes the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as the only canonical successor. 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 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
