Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate
Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate Українська Православна Церква Київський Патріархат | |
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St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv | |
Primate | Patriarch Filaret (last primate) |
Language | Ukrainian, Church Slavonic |
Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine |
Territory | Ukraine |
Founder | Metropolitan Filaret (Denysenko) |
Independence | 1992 (self-proclaimed) |
Recognition | Full communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople restored in October, 2018 but was not canonically recognized by any church (Ecumenical Patriarchate included) |
Merged into | Orthodox Church of Ukraine |
Defunct | December 15, 2018 |
Members | Claimed to be 25% of religious population (by Razumkov Center, 2016) |
Official website | Ukrainian Orthodox Church |
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP; Ukrainian: Украї́нська Правосла́вна Це́рква – Ки́ївський Патріарха́т (УПЦ-КП), translit. Ukrayínsʹka Pravoslávna Tsérkva – Kýyivsʹkyy Patriarkhát (UPTs-KP)) was one of three major Orthodox churches in Ukraine, alongside the Ukrainian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (which is a part of the Russian Orthodox Church), and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).[1][2] On 15 December 2018, bishops and delegates from the three branches of Orthodoxy in Ukraine unified in a council.[3] Metropolitan Epiphanius I (a former bishop of the Kiev Patriarchate) was elected as “Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine” and became the primate of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine.[4]
The Kiev Patriarchate was not recognised by the other Eastern Orthodox churches and was regarded as a "schismatic group" by the Moscow Patriarchate.[5][6] In early September 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew, indicated that the Church of Constantinople did not recognise the Moscow Patriarchate's claim to ecclesiastical jurisdiction over "the region of today's Metropolis of Kiev".[7] The Ecumenical Patriarch's decision of 11 October 2018[8] formally abrogated the consequences of perceived de facto jursdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church over the Kiev metropolis; it restored its controversial de jure jurisdiction over Ukraine. It was later clarified that the head of the UOC-KP, Filaret, was considered by the Ecumenical Patriarchate only as "the former metropolitan of Kiev",[9] and, on 2 November, that the Ecumenical Patriarchate did not recognize neither the UAOC nor the UOC-KP as legitimate and that their respective leaders were not recognized as primates of their churches.[10][11]
The St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kiev was the patriarchal cathedral of the UOC-KP. The primate of the church was Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko), who was enthroned in 1995. Filaret (Denysenko) was excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1997,[12][13] but the Synod and Sobor of the UOC-KP did not recognize this action.[14]
Following the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople of 9–11 October 2018 Filaret (Denysenko) was canonically reinstated and the decision was made to proceed with the granting of autocephaly to a unified church in Ukraine.[15] As a consequence, the Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church were planning to merge with pro-independence bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate into an independent (autocephalous) Ukrainian Orthodox Church (now the Orthodox Church of Ukraine).[16][17][18][19] The move by the Ecumenical Patriarchate has so far not been recognised by any of the other autocephalous churches, and the Serbian[20][21][22] and Polish[23] Orthodox churches have explicitly refused to recognise Constantinople's unilateral reinstatement of the UOC-KP, and forbidden their clergy from concelebrating with them.
Contents
1 History
1.1 11 October 2018 decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
1.2 Dissolution and merger with UAOC into OCU
2 Statistics
3 Primates of the Church
4 Administration
4.1 Dioceses[64]
4.2 Exarchates and Vicariates
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
History
The Kiev Patriarchate deems itself to be a fully independent ecclesiastical body, i.e. an autocephalous church,[24] a successor church to the Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus',[24] which existed under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate until 1686, when it was incorporated into the Russian Orthodox Church (the Moscow Patriarchate).
In January 1992, after Ukraine had became an independent state during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Patriarch Filaret convened an assembly at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra that adopted a request of autocephaly for Ukrainians to the Moscow Patriarch.[25] The Moscow Patriarch did not comply.[25]
The current church organization was established in June 1992. Its first primate, albeit nominally, was an émigré Ukrainian religious figure, Mstyslav (Skrypnyk), the then primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Mstyslav never approved the union between the UAOC and the UOC-KP.[26] While Metropolitan Filaret (Denysenko), had from the start been the driving force of the Kiev Patriarchate, it was not until after the sudden death of Patriarch Volodymyr (Romaniuk) in July 1995 that Filaret was elected the Patriarch of Kiev and All Rus’-Ukraine in October 1995. Filaret (Denysenko) had by then been defrocked by the Moscow Patriarchate in which he had been ordained and served as bishop since February 1962 until spring 1992. In February 1997, Filaret was excommunicated by the Moscow Patriarchate.[13]
Following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea 38 out of 46 of the church's parishes in Crimea ceased to exist; in three cases, churches were seized by the Russian authorities.[27]
The Kiev Patriarchate remains unrecognised by the Moscow Patriarchate, which views it as schismatic, as well as by other canonical Orthodox churches in the world. Nevertheless, since April 2018 the Ecumenical Patriarchate looked into the request of the Ukrainian Parliament to grant canonical status to the UOC-KP in Ukraine.[15][2]
11 October 2018 decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
On 11 October 2018, after a regular synod, the Patriarchate of Constantinople renewed an earlier decision to move towards granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.[28][29][30] The synod also withdrew Constantinople's 332-years-old qualified acceptance of the Russian Orthodox Church's canonical jurisdiction over the Ukrainian Church contained in a letter of 1686.[29][30] The synod also lifted the excommunication of Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) and Metropolitan Makariy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), and both bishops were "canonically reinstated to their hierarchical or priestly rank, and their faithful [...] restored to communion with the Church."[31][32][33]
On 12 October 2018, the UOC-KP declared in a communiqué that this decision from the Ecumenical Patriarchate had restored the canonical recognition of the episcopate and clergy of the Kiev Patriarchate.[34][35] However, it was later clarified that Filaret was considered by the Ecumenical Patriarchate only as "the former metropolitan of Kiev",[36][37][38] and Makariy as "the former Archbishop of Lviv"[37][38] and, on 2 November 2018, that the Ecumenical Patriarchate did not recognize neither the UAOC nor the UOC-KP as legitimate and that their respective leaders were not recognized as primates of their churches.[39][40] The Ecumenical Patriarchate declared that it recognized the sacraments performed by the UOC-KP and the UAOC as valid.[41][42]
On 20 October 2018, the UOC-KP changed the title of its head, to "His Holiness and Beatitude (name), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Kiev – Mother of the Rus Cities and of Galicia, Patriarch of All Rus-Ukraine, Holy Archimandrite of the Holy Assumption Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavras".[43][44][45] The abridged form is "His Holiness (name), Patriarch of Kiev and All Russia-Ukraine" and the form for interchurch relations "Archbishop, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'-Ukraine".[43][44][46][47][48][49] The fact the full title and the version for interchurch relations mention the titles of "archbishop" and "metropolitan" and not the title of "patriarch", but that the abridged form mentioned only the title of "patriarch" has been confusing for some.[44][45]
Dissolution and merger with UAOC into OCU
On 15 December 2018, the hierarchs of the UAOC decided to dissolve the UAOC, and the hierarchs of the UOC-KP decided to dissolve the UOC-KP. This was done because on the same day the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate, and some members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) were going to merge together to form the Orthodox Church of Ukraine after a unification council.[50]
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Statistics
The Kiev Patriarchate had 44% of the faithful as compared to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate 12.8%. So although the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine (UOC-MP) has twice as many parishes, the UOC-KP had 3 times as many faithful. The former has 38% of all Orthodox and 25% of the population as of 2016 while the Russian Orthodox have 23% and 15% respectively. The UOC-KP had 34 dioceses in Ukraine and abroad. The church had over 5,100 parishes in Ukraine. They have a vicariate in the United States which consisted of 15 parishes with its main cathedral of St. Andrew's in Bloomingdale, Illinois.[51] They also had 6 parishes in Australia and over 40 in Western Europe. The negative influence the Russian government allegedly has over the Moscow Patriarchate and claims it is using it as a "tool of influence over Ukraine” led to the April 2018 renewed drive of the recognition of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church which Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed would help "eliminate internal strife and conflicts within the state."[2][52]
UOC-KP adherents in Ukraine, excluding Crimea and breakaway parts of Donbass:
Date | Proportion | Ref |
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May–June 2016 | 33% | [53] |
June–July 2017 | 44% | [54] |
May–June 2018 | 36% | [55] |
Primates of the Church
After being dismissed in 1992 by the Archhierarch Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Metropolitan Filaret created the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate (UOC–KP) under Patriarch Mstyslav of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).
Patriarch Mstyslav (Stepan Ivanovych Skrypnyk), Patriarch of Kiev and all Rus’-Ukraine and primate of both the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate (UOC–KP) (1991–1993)
After Patriarch Mstyslav died in 1993, the temporary union ended and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church separated. The primates of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church–Kiev Patriarchate continued to carry the title of patriarch.
Patriarch Volodymyr (Volodomyr Romaniuk) (1993–1995)
Patriarch Filaret (Filaret Denysenko), (1995–present)
On 20 October 2018, the UOC-KP changed the title of its primate to "His Holiness and Beatitude (name), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Kiev – Mother of the Rus Cities and of Galicia, Patriarch of All Rus-Ukraine, Holy Archimandrite of the Holy Assumption Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavras"[56][57][58] The abridged form is "His Holiness (name), Patriarch of Kiev and All Russia-Ukraine" and the form for interchurch relations "Archbishop, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'-Ukraine".[58][56][58][59][60][61][62] The fact the full title and the version for interchurch relations mention the titles of "archbishop" and "metropolitan" and not the title of "patriarch", but that the abridged form mentioned only the title of "patriarch" has been confusing for some.[58][57] Metropolitan Hilarion commented that this bestowal of title was a "farce".[6][63]
Administration
Dioceses[64]
Diocese of Vinnytsia
Diocese of Volyn
Diocese of Volodymyr-Volynskyi
Diocese of Dnipropetrovsk
Diocese of Donetsk
Diocese of Drohobych-Sambir
Diocese of Zhytomyr
Diocese of Transcarpathia
Diocese of Zaporizhzhya
Diocese of Ivano-Frankivsk
Diocese of Kyiv
Diocese of Kirovograd
Diocese of Kitsman
Diocese of Kolomyia
Diocese of Crimea
Diocese of Luhansk
Diocese of Lviv
Diocese of Mykolayiv
Diocese of Odessa
Diocese of Pereiaslav
Diocese of Poltava
Diocese of Rivne
Diocese of Sumy
Diocese of Ternopil-Buchach[65]
Diocese of Ternopil-Terebovlya
Diocese of Kharkiv
Diocese of Kherson[66]
Diocese of Khmelnytsky
Diocese of Cherkasy[67]
Diocese of Chernivtsi[68]
Diocese of Chernihiv
Diocese of Belgorod
Diocese of Bogorodsk
Deanery of Germany[69]
Diocese of Paris
Diocese of Eastern Moldavia
Exarchates and Vicariates
- Exarchate in Greece
- Ukrainian Orthodox Vicarate of the UOC-KP in the USA and Canada[70]
- Vicariate in Australia
- European Exarchate
- Russian Exarchate
See also
- Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate
- Moscow–Constantinople schism
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Eastern Orthodox Church organization
- Montenegrin Orthodox Church
- Orthodox Church in Italy
- Bulgarian Alternative Synod
- Orthodox Church in America
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^ ab "UOC KP Spokesman: Our Primate is archbishop, metropolitan, and patriarch". spzh.news. 27 October 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
^ abcd ""Metropolitan" and "patriarch" rolled into one: KP changes its head's title". spzh.news. 20 October 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
^ Wozniak, Hanna (26 October 2018). "Is the Ecumenical Patriarchate Fine with St. Andrew's Church in Kyiv?". moderndiplomacy.eu. Retrieved 2018-10-27.On October 20, the UOC KP Synod changed the title of its head [Filaret]. Now the Church’s Primate will also be called the Archimandrite of Kyiv-Pechersk and Pochaiv Lavras, which seemingly reflects Filaret’s desire to get them at his disposal. At the moment both Lavras belong to the UOC MP [the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)], so it looks like the “Archimandrite” doesn’t want to comply with the fifth point of the Constantinople Synod decree in which the Patriarchate appeals to all sides involved that they avoid appropriation of Churches, Monasteries and other properties.
^ Укрінформ (2018-10-26), Українська церква на шляху утвердження автокефалії, retrieved 2018-10-29 (Press conference)
^ "UOC KP Spokesman: Our Primate is archbishop, metropolitan, and patriarch". spzh.news. 27 October 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-29.Filaret is an "archbishop", a "metropolitan", and a "patriarch". This was announced on October 26 by Spokesman of the UOC KP Eustratiy Zoria during the press conference of Ukrinform "Ukrainian Church on the road to establishing autocephaly".
^ "Zoria explains why Filaret's title includes references to UOC Lavras". spzh.news. 22 October 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-24.
^ "Metropolitan Hilarion: Awarding new titles to Filaret is farce". spzh.news. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
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External links
"Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate". www.cerkva.info (in Ukrainian, Russian, and English).
"The Canons of the Eastern Orthodox Church".- Canonical status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate