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The '''Ukrainian Orthodox Church&nbsp;– Kiev Patriarchate''' ('''UOC-KP'''; {{lang-uk|Украї́нська Правосла́вна Це́рква – Ки́ївський Патріарха́т (УПЦ-КП)|Ukrayínsʹka Pravoslávna Tsérkva – Kýyivsʹkyy Patriarkhát}} (UPTs-KP)) is an [[Religion:Eastern Orthodox Church organization|Orthodox church]] in {{wipe|Ukraine}} which declared its revival following its liquidation by the Honorary Partriarch Filaret, who decided to go into schism with the [[Religion:Orthodox Church of Ukraine|Orthodox Church of Ukraine]]. The legal status of the church is debateable. On 15 December 2018, bishops and delegates from three major<ref name=CIA/><ref name="ACAPRIL242018"/> branches of Orthodoxy in Ukraine (the UOC-KP, the UAOC and some members of the UOC-MP) unified at a council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/orthodox_world/73913/|title=Procedure of election of new Primate of Ukrainian Church announced|website=risu.org.ua}}</ref> During the council, Metropolitan Epiphanius I (a former bishop of the Kiev Patriarchate) was elected Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine and became the primate of the new [[Religion:Orthodox Church of Ukraine|Orthodox Church of Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/national_religious_question/73918/|title=Metropolitan Epifaniy (Dumenko) becomes Primate of One Local Orthodox Church of Ukraine|website=risu.org.ua}}</ref>

The patriarchate was not recognised by the other Eastern Orthodox churches, and was considered a "schismatic group" by the Moscow Patriarchate.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://tass.ru/obschestvo/5514136|title=РПЦ: вмешательство Константинополя в ситуацию на Украине может породить новые расколы|last=|first=|date=1 September 2018|work=ТАСС|access-date=2018-12-02|type=Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)}}</ref><ref name=":25" /> The Ecumenical Patriarchate decided on 11 October to reintegrate the UOC-KP into the [[Religion:Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Church]], but did not recognise it as a patriarchy.

St Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kiev is the UOC-KP's patriarchal cathedral. The church's primate was Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko), who was enthroned in 1995. Filaret was [[Religion:Excommunication|excommunicated]] by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1997,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sobor-2008.ru:80/417804/index.html|title=Акт об отлучении от Церкви монаха Филарета (Денисенко)|website=sobor-2008.ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829050828/http://sobor-2008.ru:80/417804/index.html|archive-date=2014-08-29|url-status=live|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=http://orthochristian.com/116586.html|title=Official History of the Defrocking and Anathematization of Philaret Denisenko. Documents of the June 1992, 1994, and 1997 Bishops’ Councils of the Russian Orthodox Church|last=|first=|date=17 October 2018|work=OrthoChristian.Com|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref> an action not recognized by the UOC-KP [[Religion:Synod|synod]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.cerkva.info/en/canonical-status/214-declaracia-10-2.html|title=X. The So-Called "Anathematization" Of Patriarch Filaret (part 2). - Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP)|last=Патріархії|first=Прес-центр Київської|website=archive.cerkva.info|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref>

After the 9–11 October 2018 synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Filaret was reinstated and it was decided to grant [[Religion:Autocephaly|autocephaly]] to a unified church in Ukraine.<ref name="communique" /> The Kiev Patriarchate and the [[Religion:Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church|Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] planned to merge with pro-independence Moscow Patriarchate bishops into an independent (autocephalous) Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.<ref name="kyivpost" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name="EoC" /><ref name=":1" /> The ecumenical patriarchate's move has only been recognized by the Churches of Greece and Alexandria,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://orthodoxtimes.com/the-patriarchate-of-alexandria-recognizes-the-orthodox-church-of-ukraine/|title=The Patriarchate of Alexandria recognizes the Autocephalous Church of Ukraine (upd)|date=2019-11-08|website=Orthodox Times|language=en-US|accessdate=2019-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.romfea.news/metropolitan-epiphanius-the-church-of-greece-recognized-de-facto-our-church/|title=Metropolitan Epiphanius: The Church of Greece recognized de facto our Church (upd)|date=2019-07-29|website=Orthodox Times|language=en-US|accessdate=2019-10-20}}</ref> and not by the other autocephalous churches; the [[Religion:Serbian Orthodox Church|Serbian]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spzh.news/en/news/57465-serbskaja-cerkovy-otkazalasy-priznavaty-vosstanovlenije-filareta-i-makarija|title=Serbian Church refuses to recognize "reinstatement" of Filaret and Makariy|date=12 November 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-11-30}}</ref><ref name=":41">{{Cite web|url=http://www.spc.rs/sr/stav_srpske_pravoslavne_crkve_o_crkvenoj_krizi_u_ukrajini_posle_najnovijih_odluka_carigradske_patrij|title=Став Српске Православне Цркве о црквеној кризи у Украјини после најновијих одлука Цариградске Патријаршије {{!}} Српска Православнa Црквa [Званични сајт]|date=12 November 2018|website=www.spc.rs|language=sr|access-date=2018-11-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mospat.ru/en/2018/11/13/news166530/|title=Serbian Orthodox Church Bishops’ Council expresses its position on situation resulting from Patriarchate of Constantinople’s actions in Ukraine {{!}} The Russian Orthodox Church|date=13 November 2018|website=mospat.ru|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-30}}</ref> and Polish<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.orthodox.pl/41419-2/|title=Komunikat<br />Kancelarii Św. Soboru Biskupów<br />Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego<br />15 listopada 2018 roku|date=16 November 2018|website=www.orthodox.pl|language=pl-PL|access-date=2018-11-30}}</ref> Orthodox churches have refused to recognise Constantinople's reinstatement of the UOC-KP, and forbidden their clergy from celebrating with them. On 20 June 2019, a small number of Pro-Filaret UOC (former UOC-KP) members—including Filaret—left the OCU after a local UOC-KP council.

==History==
The Kiev Patriarchate considers itself an [[Religion:Autocephaly|independent church]],<ref name="kpstatut">[https://www.cerkva.info/pages/statut СТАТУТ ПРО УПРАВЛІННЯ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЇ ЦЕРКВИ КИЇВСЬКОГО ПАТРІАРХАТУ] See Chapter I, § 1 and 7.</ref> a successor of the [[Religion:Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'|Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus']]<ref name="kpstatut" /> which existed under the Ecumenical Patriarchate until 1686 (when it was incorporated into the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church). In January 1992, after Ukraine became an independent state during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Metropolitan of Kiev Filaret convened an assembly at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra which submitted a request for Ukrainian autocephaly to the Moscow Patriarch.<ref name="221781autocephalyB">[http://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/221781 After autocephaly], The Ukrainian Week (26 October 2018)<br>{{in lang|uk}} [https://m.gazeta.ua/articles/life/_vselenskij-patriarhat-oprilyudniv-dokumenti-na-pidtrimku-ukrayinskoyi-avtokefaliyi/859088 The Ecumenical Patriarchate unveiled documents in support of Ukrainian autocephaly], Gazeta.ua (14 September 2018)</ref> The Moscow Patriarch did not comply.<ref name="221781autocephalyB"/>{{Eastern Orthodox sidebar}}

The church was organised in June 1992. Its nominal primate was the émigré Mstyslav (Skrypnyk), primate of the [[Religion:Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church|Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]]. Mstyslav never approved the union of the UAOC and UOC-KP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CU%5CK%5CUkrainianOrthodoxchurch.htm|title=Ukrainian Orthodox church|website=www.encyclopediaofukraine.com|access-date=2019-01-09}}</ref> Although Metropolitan Filaret had been the driving force of the Kiev Patriarchate, it was not until the sudden death of Patriarch Volodymyr (Romaniuk) in July 1995 that he was elected the Patriarch of Kiev and All Rus’-Ukraine in October of that year. Filaret had been [[Religion:Defrocking|defrocked]] by the Moscow Patriarchate (in which he had been ordained and served as bishop from February 1962 to spring 1992), and was excommunicated in February 1997.<ref name=":4" />

After the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, 38 of the church's 46 parishes in Crimea ceased to exist; three churches were seized by Russian authorities.<ref>[https://www.unian.info/society/10295148-russia-seeks-to-crush-ukrainian-orthodox-church-in-crimea-for-helping-resist-russification-khpg.html Russia seeks to crush the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea for helping resist Russification], UNIAN (11 October 2018)</ref> The Kiev Patriarchate is unrecognised by the Moscow Patriarchate (which considers it schismatic) and other Orthodox churches. In April 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarchate began to consider a request by the Ukrainian Parliament to grant canonical status to the UOC-KP in Ukraine.<ref name="ACAPRIL242018" /><ref name="communique" />

=== {{anchor|11 October 2018 decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate}}11 October 2018 Ecumenical Patriarchate decision ===
In early September 2018, [[Religion:Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|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 [[Religion:Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'|Metropolis of Kiev]]".<ref>[https://www.uocofusa.org/news_180901_1.html Synaxis of Hierarchs of The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople] Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA</ref> On 11 October 2018, after a [[Religion:Synod|synod]], the Patriarchate of Constantinople renewed an earlier decision to move towards granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.<ref name="Reuters2018-10-11a">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-church/ukraine-wins-approval-for-historic-split-from-russian-church-idUSKCN1ML2J6|title=Ukraine wins approval for historic split from Russian church|last1=Polityuk|first1=Pavel|date=11 October 2018|access-date=16 October 2018|agency=Reuters|last2=Dikmen|first2=Yesim}}</ref><ref name="EoC2">{{cite web|url=https://www.patriarchate.org/-/communiq-1|title=Announcement (11/10/2018). - Announcements - The Ecumenical Patriarchate|last=|first=|date=11 October 2018|website=www.patriarchate.org|publisher=Ecumenical Patriarchate|accessdate=12 October 2018|quote=The Holy Synod discussed in particular and at length the ecclesiastical matter of Ukraine, in the presence of His Excellency Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon and His Grace Bishop Hilarion of Edmonton, Patriarchal Exarchs to Ukraine, and following extensive deliberations decreed:<br>1) To renew the decision already made that the Ecumenical Patriarchate proceed to the granting of Autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine. [...]<br>4) To revoke the legal binding of the Synodal Letter of the year 1686 [...]}}</ref><ref name="EuroMaidan2018-10-14a">{{cite book|url=http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/10/14/tomos-guide-ukraine-church-autocephaly/|title=Tomos ante portas: a short guide to Ukrainian church independence|author=|date=14 October 2018|publisher=Euromaidan Press|quote=the Synod ... of the Ecumenical Patriarchate ... gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow. ... Although President Poroshenko triumphantly announced that as a result of the meeting Ukraine had received the long-awaited Tomos, or decree of Church independence – a claim circulated in Ukraine with great enthusiasm, this is not true ... Constantinople’s decision will benefit other jurisdictions in Ukraine – the UOC KP and UAOC, which will have to effectively dismantle their own administrative structures and set up a new Church, which will receive the Tomos of autocephaly ... Right now it’s unclear which part of the UOC MP will join the new Church. 10 out of 90 UOC MP bishops signed the appeal for autocephaly to the Ecumenical Patriarch – only 11%. But separate priests could join even if their bishops don’t, says Zuiev.|accessdate=16 October 2018}}</ref> The synod also withdrew Constantinople's 332-year qualified acceptance of the Russian Orthodox Church's jurisdiction over the Ukrainian Church, contained in a 1686 letter.<ref name="EoC2" /><ref name="EuroMaidan2018-10-14a" /> It lifted the excommunications of Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) and Metropolitan Makariy of the [[Religion:Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church|Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] (UAOC); both bishops were "canonically reinstated to their hierarchical or priestly rank, and their faithful ... restored to communion with the Church."<ref name=":242">{{Cite web|url=https://www.patriarchate.org/-/communiq-1|title=Announcement (11/10/2018). - Announcements - The Ecumenical Patriarchate|last=|first=|date=11 October 2018|website=www.patriarchate.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-30}}</ref><ref name=":23">{{Cite web|url=https://www.patriarchate.org/-/communiq-1|title=Announcement (11/10/2018). - Announcements - The Ecumenical Patriarchate|last=|first=|date=|website=www.patriarchate.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-27|quote=3) To accept and review the petitions of appeal of Filaret Denisenko, Makariy Maletych and their followers, who found themselves in schism not for dogmatic reasons, in accordance with the canonical prerogatives of the Patriarch of Constantinople to receive such petitions by hierarchs and other clergy from all of the Autocephalous Churches. Thus, the above-mentioned have been canonically reinstated to their hierarchical or priestly rank, and their faithful have been restored to communion with the Church.}}</ref><ref name="Kyiv20181017">{{cite news|url=https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/constantinople-patriarchate-recognizes-kyiv-patriarch-filaret-as-legitimate.html|title=Constantinople recognizes Kyiv Patriarch Filaret as church bishop|last=|first=|date=11 October 2018|work=KyivPost|accessdate=17 October 2018|quote="The Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church are planning to merge with pro-independence bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate into an independent (autocephalous) Ukrainian church, which is expected to get a Tomos — a Synod decree recognizing the independence of the Ukrainian church from the Constantinople church. “This decision gives us the opportunity to unite with bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate who are willing (to join),” Filaret said on Oct. 11."}}</ref>

The following day, the UOC-KP declared that the decision restored the canonical recognition of the episcopate and clergy of the Kiev Patriarchate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cerkva.info/posts/zaiava-pres-tsentru-kyivskoi-patriarkhii-shchodo-rishennia-sviashchennoho-synodu-konstantynopolskoi-materi-tserkvy-ta-ikhnie-znachennia-dlia-tserkvy-v-ukraini|title=Заява Прес-центру Київської Патріархії про рішення Священного Синоду Константинопольської Матері-Церкви та їхнє значення для Церкви в Україні|last=|first=|date=12 October 2018|website=www.cerkva.info|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spzh.news/en/news/56582-v-kijevskom-patriarkhate-otkazalisy-ispolnyaty-reshenije-fanara-po-filaretu|title=Kiev Patriarchate declines to implement the Phanar's decision on Filaret|last=|first=|date=12 October 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref> It was later clarified that the Ecumenical Patriarchate considered Filaret "the former metropolitan of Kiev"<ref name=":302">{{Cite web|url=http://spzh.news/en/news/56602-fanar-schitajet-filareta-prostym-jepiskopom-bez-kafedry|title=Phanar considers Filaret an ordinary bishop without an episcopal see|last=|first=|date=14 October 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref><ref name=":69">{{Cite web|url=https://www.romfea.gr/epikairotita-xronika/25568-apokleistiko-bartholomaios-se-onoufrio-den-mporeite-na-exete-pleon-ton-titlo-kiebou|title=ΑΠΟΚΛΕΙΣΤΙΚΟ {{!}} Βαρθολομαίος σε Ονούφριο: ''Δεν μπορείτε να έχετε πλέον τον τίτλο Κιέβου''|last=|first=|date=7 December 2018|website=ROMFEA|language=el-gr|access-date=2018-12-08}}</ref><ref name=":03">{{Cite web|url=https://www.unian.info/politics/10367883-patriarch-bartholomew-explains-metropolitan-onufriy-reasons-for-ukraine-church-s-autocephaly-letter.html|title=Patriarch Bartholomew explains Metropolitan Onufriy reasons for Ukraine church's autocephaly (Letter)|date=7 December 2018|website=unian.info|access-date=2018-12-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=15148|title=Kiev Patriarchate does not exist, never existed - Patriarch Bartholomew|date=3 June 2019|website=www.interfax-religion.com|access-date=2019-06-03}}</ref> and Makariy "the former Archbishop of Lviv"<ref name=":69" /><ref name=":03"/> and, on 2 November 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarchate did not recognise the UAOC or the UOC-KP and their leaders.<ref name=":52">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-46067230|title=Константинополь: "Надеемся, Москва обратится к разуму". Подробности беседы|date=2018-11-02|work=BBC News Русская служба|access-date=2018-11-03|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":332">{{Cite web|url=https://orthodoxie.com/en/bbc-interview-with-archbishop-job-of-telmessos-on-the-ukrainian-question/|title=BBC interview with Archbishop Job of Telmessos on the Ukrainian question|last=Cazabonne|first=Emma|date=6 November 2018|website=orthodoxie.com|access-date=2018-11-07}}</ref> The Ecumenical Patriarchate declared that it recognised [[Religion:Sacrament|sacrament]]s performed by the UOC-KP and the UAOC as valid.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spzh.news/en/news/56705-konstantinopoly-priznal-kanonichnym-vesy-klir-upc-kp-i-uapc--ekzarkh-fanara|title=Exarch: Constantinople recognizes all clergy of KP and UAOC as canonical|date=16 October 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-12-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://orthochristian.com/116578.html|title=Constantinople recognized all clergy of KP and UAOC as canonical—Patriarchal Exarch|date=16 October 2018|website=OrthoChristian.Com|access-date=2018-12-22}}</ref>

On 20 October 2018, the UOC-KP changed the title of its leader to "His Holiness and Beatitude (name), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Kiev – Mother of the Rus Cities and of Galicia, Patriarch of All [[Place:Kievan Rus'|Rus-Ukraine]], Holy [[Religion:Archimandrite|Archimandrite]] of the Holy Assumption Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavras".<ref name=":212">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cerkva.info/church/zhurnaly-zasidannia-sviashchennoho-synodu-20-zhovtnia-2018-r|title=ЖУРНАЛ №17 ЗАСІДАННЯ СВЯЩЕННОГО СИНОДУ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЇ ЦЕРКВИ КИЇВСЬКОГО ПАТРІАРХАТУ|date=20 October 2018|website=www.cerkva.info|publisher=Українська Православна Церква Київський Патріархат (УПЦ КП)|access-date=2018-10-27}}</ref><ref name=":202">{{Cite web|url=http://spzh.news/en/news/56848-mitropolit-snaruzhi--patriarkh-vnutri-upc-kp-smenila-titul-svojego-glavy|title="Metropolitan" and "patriarch" rolled into one: KP changes its head’s title|date=20 October 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref><ref name=":32">{{Cite web|url=https://spzh.news/en/news/57050-spiker-upc-kp-nash-predstojately--i-arkhijepiskop-i-mitropolit-i-patriarkh|title=UOC KP Spokesman: Our Primate is archbishop, metropolitan, and patriarch|date=27 October 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref> The abridged form is "His Holiness (name), Patriarch of Kiev and All Rus’-Ukraine", and the form for interchurch relations is "Archbishop, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'-Ukraine".<ref name=":212" /><ref name=":202" /><ref name=":222">{{Cite web|url=https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/10/26/is-the-ecumenical-patriarchate-fine-with-st-andrews-church-in-kyiv/|title=Is the Ecumenical Patriarchate Fine with St. Andrew's Church in Kyiv?|last=Wozniak|first=Hanna|date=26 October 2018|website=moderndiplomacy.eu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-27|quote="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."}}</ref><ref name="Укрінформ">{{Citation|last=Укрінформ|title=Українська церква на шляху утвердження автокефалії|date=2018-10-26|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQ5PvGa8bg|access-date=2018-10-29}} (Press conference)</ref><ref name="spzh.news">{{Cite web|url=https://spzh.news/en/news/57050-spiker-upc-kp-nash-predstojately--i-arkhijepiskop-i-mitropolit-i-patriarkh|title=UOC KP Spokesman: Our Primate is archbishop, metropolitan, and patriarch|date=27 October 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-10-29|quote="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"."}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web|url=https://spzh.news/en/news/56865-zorya-obyasnil-otkuda-v-titule-filareta-vzyalisy-upominanija-pro-lavry-upc|title=Zoria explains why Filaret’s title includes references to UOC Lavras|date=22 October 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-11-24}}</ref> The full title and the interchurch-relations version's mention of "archbishop" and "metropolitan" and the abridged form's mention of "patriarch" have caused confusion.<ref name=":202" /><ref name=":32" />

=== Dissolution and merger with the UAOC into the OCU ===
On 15 December 2018, the [[Religion:Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church|Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] and UOC-KP hierarchies decided to dissolve the churches. That day, the UAOC, the UOC–KP and some members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) were going to merge to form the [[Religion:Orthodox Church of Ukraine|Orthodox Church of Ukraine]] after a unification council.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/kievskiy-patriarhat-uapts-samoraspustilis-1544894232.html|script-title=ru:Киевский патриархат и УАПЦ самораспустились перед Собором|date=15 December 2018|website=РБК-Украина|language=ru|access-date=2018-12-16}}</ref>

According to Filaret, "the Kiev Patriarchate has not been liquidated. It is not liquidated. They want to present the situation as if it was liquidated. The Kiev Patriarchate can be liquidated by the one who created it".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/ocu/75734/|title=Split is looming in the newly formed Orthodox Church of Ukraine|date=10 May 2019|website=risu.org.ua|access-date=2019-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/orthodox/ocu/75725/|title="Київський Патріархат не ліквідовано" — владика Філарет|date=9 May 2019|website=risu.org.ua|trans-title=The Kyiv Patriarchate has not been liquidated — Bishop Filaret|access-date=2019-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://orthodoxie.com/en/patriarch-filaret-considers-that-the-kyiv-patriarchate-has-never-been-liquidated/|title="Patriarch" Filaret considers that the "Kyiv Patriarchate has never been liquidated"|last=Cazabonne|first=Emma|date=2019-05-10|website=Orthodoxie.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-11}}</ref> The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, "in response to a widely circulated statement by the media, alleging that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate still exists or is being restored in Ukraine", published a report that the UOC-KP had "actually and legally ceased its activities".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/state/authorities_religious_affairs/75742/|title=УПЦ КП "фактично й юридично припинила свою діяльність", — заява Міністерства культури|date=11 May 2019|website=risu.org.ua|access-date=2019-05-12}}</ref> Filaret said, "The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) remains registered with state bodies. In particular, the Kiev Patriarchate remains registered. This means the Kiev Patriarchate continues to legally exist."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unian.info/society/10549452-patriarch-filaret-talks-of-split-schools-metropolitan-epifaniy.html|title=Patriarch Filaret talks of split, schools Metropolitan Epifaniy|date=15 May 2019|website=www.unian.info|language=en|access-date=2019-05-15}}</ref> According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, the UOC-KP still existed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://orthochristian.com/121290.html|title=Filaret’s "Kiev Patriarchate" still exists—Ukrainian Ministry of Justice|date=21 May 2019|website=OrthoChristian.Com|access-date=2019-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gordonua.com/news/society/v-minyuste-soobshchili-chto-reshenie-o-rospuske-upc-kp-mozhet-prinyat-tolko-pomestnyy-sobor-kievskogo-patriarhata-ili-sud-976728.html|title=В Минюсте сообщили, что решение о роспуске УПЦ КП может принять только Поместный собор Киевского патриархата или суд|website=gordonua.com|access-date=2019-05-21}}</ref>

=== {{anchor|Separation from the OCU, and reestablishment of the UOC–KP}}Separation from the OCU and reestablishment of the UOC–KP ===
The local council of the UOC-KP (convened by Filaret) decided to cancel the decisions of the unification council of the Orthodox churches of Ukraine on 20 June 2019,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc_kp/76218|title=Filaret’s 'Council' restores UOC-KP with all its structure, property and criticizes Tomos|date=20 June 2019|work=RISU - Religious Information Service of Ukraine|access-date=2019-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=15167|title="Kiev Patriarchate" cancels its dissolution|date=20 June 2019|work=Interfax|access-date=2019-06-21}}</ref> during the conflict between Filaret and Epiphanius.

On 31 July 2019, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture said the UOC-KP had ceased to exist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/76699/|title=Ministry of Culture confirms liquidation of Kyiv Patriarchate|date=31 July 2019|website=risu.org.ua|access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mincult.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=245502137&cat_id=244913751|title=Міністерство культури України :: Заява Міністерства культури України щодо особливостей державної реєстрації низки православних релігійних організацій після проведення Помісного Об'єднавчого Собору 15 грудня 2018 року|date=31 July 2019|website=mincult.kmu.gov.ua|access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref> However, on 4 September 2019, the {{Interlanguage link|District Administrative Court of Kiev|lt=|uk|Окружний адміністративний суд міста Києва|WD=}} suspended the liquidation of the UOC-KP at the request of the UOC-KP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unn.com.ua/uk/news/1822534-upts-kp-podala-sudoviy-pozov-schodo-nezakonnosti-utvorennya-likvidatsiynoyi-komisiyi-kiyivskoyi-patriarkhiyi|title=УПЦ КП подала судовий позов щодо незаконності утворення ліквідаційної комісії Київської патріархії|last=|first=|date=4 September 2019|website=Інформаційне агентство Українські Національні Новини (УНН). Всі онлайн новини дня в Україні за сьогодні - найсвіжіші, останні, головні.|language=uk|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/77054/|title=District Administrative Court suspends liquidation of UOC-KP|last=|first=|date=5 September 2019|website=risu.org|access-date=}}</ref> On 11 September, another decision of the same court blocked "the Justice Ministry of Ukraine, the Culture Ministry of Ukraine, its structural sub-units, central-government and local authorities, and notaries public from performing any registration regarding the Kiev Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate [UOC-KP], and their assets"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=15258|title=Ukrainian court freezes "Kiev Patriarchate" liquidation|last=|first=|date=12 September 2019|website=www.interfax-religion.com|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://espreso.tv/news/2019/09/12/okruzhnyy_sud_zaboronyv_pcu_rozporyadzhatys_maynom_likvidovanogo_kyyivskogo_patriarkhatu|title=Окружний суд заборонив ПЦУ розпоряджатись майном ліквідованого Київського патріархату|last=|first=|date=12 September 2019|website=espreso.tv|access-date=2019-09-15}}</ref> On 11 November 2019, the Court of Appeal of the District Administrative Court of Kiev confirmed legality of the process of liquidation of the UOC-KP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=73744|title=Суд в Киеве разрешил продолжить ликвидацию УПЦ-КП|last=|first=|date=2019-11-11|website=www.interfax-religion.ru|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/jurisprudence/77760/|title=Court of Appeal allows liquidation of UOC-KP|last=|first=|date=2019-11-11|website=risu.org.ua|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref>

On 14 December 2019, after the meeting of the enlarged Bishops' Council, held on December 14 in Kiev on the occasion of the anniversary of the creation of the [[Religion:Orthodox Church of Ukraine|OCU]], Epiphanius delared that the procedure of liquidation of the [[Religion:Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church|UAOC]] as well as the UOC-KP had been completed the day before. He added: "Such structures no longer exist. In confirmation of that, in the State Register there is marked 'activity DISCONTINUED{{' "}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/orthodox/ocu/78178/|title=Митрополит Епіфаній оголосив про юридичне припинення існування УПЦ КП та УАПЦ|last=|first=|date=14 December 2019|website=risu.org.ua|access-date=2019-12-14}}</ref> In the same month, the UOC-KP stated it did not recognize the liquidation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/ukraine_and_world/international_relations/78300/|title=Filaret’s supporters plan to hold a forum in Brussels in defense of UOC-KP|last=|first=|date=24 December 2019|website=risu.org.ua|access-date=2019-12-26}}</ref>

In January 2020, the UOC-KP announced that Filaret had officially withdrawn his signature from the 15 December 2018 act of dissolution of the UOC-KP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=15422|title=Filaret recalls signature under UOC-KP liquidation|last=|first=|date=13 January 2020|website=www.interfax-religion.com|access-date=2020-01-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc_kp/78471/|title=Філарет відкликав свій підпис під постановою про ліквідацію УПЦ КП|last=|first=|date=10 January 2020|website=risu.org.ua|access-date=2020-01-10}}</ref>

==Statistics==
The Kiev Patriarchate had 44 percent of Orthodox Christians, compared to 12.8 percent for the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. Although the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine (UOC-MP) has twice as many parishes, the UOC-KP had three times as many members. The former had 38 percent of all Orthodox and 25 percent of the population in 2016, and the Russian Orthodox had 23 percent of the Orthodox and 15 percent of the population. The UOC-KP had 34 dioceses worldwide, and over 5,100 parishes in Ukraine. Its United States vicariate consisted of 15 parishes, with its main cathedral St. Andrew's in Bloomingdale, Illinois.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.standrewuoc.com/home.html|title=Home|website=en.standrewuoc.com|access-date=2018-12-10}}</ref> The church had six parishes in Australia, and over 40 in [[Place:Western Europe|western Europe]]. The Russian government's reported negative influence on the Moscow Patriarchate and claims that it is using the patriarchate as a "tool of influence over Ukraine" led to a renewed April 2018 drive to recognise an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church which, according to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, would help "eliminate internal strife and conflicts within the state."<ref name="ACAPRIL242018" /><ref name="ITUC242018" />

UOC-KP adherents in Ukraine, excluding Crimea and breakaway areas of Donbass:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Date
! Percentage
! Source
|-
| May–June 2016
| 33
| <ref name=MayJune2016/>
|-
| June–July 2017
| 44
| <ref name="IRI2017">{{cite web |url= http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/2017-8-22_ukraine_poll_presentation.pdf |title= Public Opinion Survey of Residents of Ukraine June 9 – July 7, 2017 |publisher= iri.org |page= 77 |date= 22 August 2017 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20170822212837/http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/2017-8-22_ukraine_poll_presentation.pdf |archivedate= 22 August 2017 }}</ref>
|-
| May–June 2018
| 36
| <ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/june_2018_national_survey.pdf |title= Public Opinion Survey: Residents of Ukraine May 26 – June 10, 2018 |page= 85 |publisher=International Republican Institute |date=2018 }}</ref>
|}

=={{anchor|Primates of the Church}}Primates==
[[File:Порошенко і патріарх Філарет.jpg|thumb|alt=Filaret and Poroshenko, holding a bouquet of white roses|Patriarch Filaret with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, 21 October 2018]]
After being dismissed in 1992 by the Archhierarch Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Metropolitan Filaret created the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate (UOC–KP) under Patriarch Mstyslav of the [[Religion:Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church|Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]] (UAOC). Mstyslav never approved of the union of the UAOC and the UOC-KP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CU%5CK%5CUkrainianOrthodoxchurch.htm|title=Ukrainian Orthodox church|website=encyclopediaofukraine.com|access-date=2019-01-09}}</ref>

Patriarch Mstyslav (Stepan Ivanovych Skrypnyk) was Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus’-Ukraine and primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC–KP) from 1991 to 1993. After Mstyslav's death in 1993, the temporary union ended and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church separated. The primates of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church–Kyiv Patriarchate continued to hold the title of patriarch:
* Patriarch Volodymyr (Volodomyr Romaniuk) (1993–1995)
* Patriarch Filaret (Filaret Denysenko), (1995–2018, 2019–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 [[Place:Kievan Rus'|Rus-Ukraine]], Holy [[Religion:Archimandrite|Archimandrite]] of the Holy Assumption Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavras".<ref name=":202"/><ref name=":32"/><ref name=":21" /> The abridged form is "His Holiness (name), Patriarch of Kiev and All Russia-Ukraine", and the form for inter-church relations is "Archbishop, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'-Ukraine".<ref name=":202"/><ref name=":222"/><ref name="Укрінформ"/><ref name="spzh.news"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name=":21">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cerkva.info/church/zhurnaly-zasidannia-sviashchennoho-synodu-20-zhovtnia-2018-r|title=ЖУРНАЛ №17 ЗАСІДАННЯ СВЯЩЕННОГО СИНОДУ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЇ ЦЕРКВИ КИЇВСЬКОГО ПАТРІАРХАТУ|website=www.cerkva.info|publisher=Українська Православна Церква Київський Патріархат (УПЦ КП)|access-date=2018-10-27}}</ref> Metropolitan Hilarion called the bestowal of title a "farce".<ref name=":25">{{Cite web|url=https://mospat.ru/en/2018/10/22/news165617/|title=Metropolitan Hilarion: Filaret Denisenko was and remains a schismatic|date=22 October 2018|website=mospat.ru|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spzh.news/en/news/56885-mitropolit-ilarion-prisvojenije-novyh-titulov-filaretu--fars|title=Metropolitan Hilarion: Awarding new titles to Filaret is farce|date=23 October 2018|website=spzh.news|language=en|access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>

==Administration==
{{POV|section|date=April 2020}}
Before the first disestablishment:<ref>{{cite web |url = https://en.uockp.net/links.html |title = Resources- Links |website = Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate in the United States and Canada |access-date = 2018-12-08 }}</ref>

=== Dioceses ===
{{Div col|colwidth=18em}}
* Vinnytsia
* [[Place:Volhynia|Volyn]]
* Volodymyr-Volynskyi
* Dnipropetrovsk
* Donetsk
* Drohobych-Sambir
* Zhytomyr
* Transcarpathia
* Zaporizhzhya
* Ivano-Frankivsk
* [[Place:Kiev|Kiev]]
* Kirovograd
* Kitsman
* Kolomyia
* Crimea
* Luhansk
* Lviv
* Mykolayiv
* Odessa
* Pereiaslav
* Poltava
* Rivne
* Sumy
* Ternopil-Buchach<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cerkva.te.ua/|title=cerkva.te.ua |website=Тернопільська єпархія Української Првославної Церкви Київського патріархату|language=uk|access-date=2018-12-08}}</ref>
* Ternopil-Terebovlya
* Kharkiv
* Kherson<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.pravoslav.tv/|title=pravoslav.tv |website=pravoslav.tv/ |access-date=8 December 2018}}</ref>
* Khmelnytsky
* Cherkasy<ref>{{cite web |url = http://cherkas.org.ua/|title=Культурно-просветительский центр "Cherkas". Христианство в искусстве: иконы, фрески, мозаики |website=cherkas.org.ua |access-date=2018-12-08}}</ref>
* Chernivtsi<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.cerkva.in.ua/|title=ГОЛОВНА — Чернігівські єпархіальні відомості |website=www.cerkva.in.ua|access-date=2018-12-08}}</ref>
* Chernihiv
* Belgorod
* Bogorodsk
* [[Religion:Deanery|Deanery]] of {{wipe|Germany}}<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ukrainian-church.de/|title=www.ukrainian-church.de/ |date=|website=Ukrainische Orthodoxe Kirche |language=de-DE |access-date=2018-12-08}}</ref>
* [[Place:Paris|Paris]]
* Eastern Moldavia
{{div col end}}

==={{anchor|Exarchates and Vicariates}}Exarchates and vicariates===
* Exarchate in Greece
* Ukrainian Orthodox Vicarate of the UOC-KP in the US and Canada<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.uockp.net/home.html|title=Home|website=en.uockp.net|access-date=2018-12-06}}</ref>
* Vicariate in Australia
* European Exarchate
* Russian Exarchate

==See also==
* [[Religion:Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox Church]]
* [[Religion:Eastern Orthodox Church organization|Eastern Orthodox Church organization]]
* Montenegrin Orthodox Church
* [[Religion:Orthodox Church in Italy|Orthodox Church in Italy]]
* Bulgarian Alternative Synod
* Orthodox Church in America

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<ref name=CIA>{{cite web |url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html |title= Ukraine |publisher= The CIA World Factbook }} According to the CIA World Factbook, 19% of the Ukrainian population associated themselves with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate (cf. Orthodox (no particular jurisdiction) 16%, Ukrainian Orthodox – Moscow Patriarchate 9%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic 6%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox 1.7%).</ref>

<ref name="ACAPRIL242018">{{cite web |url = http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-may-be-getting-its-own-church-but-not-as-fast-as-poroshenko-thinks  |title =  Ukraine May Be Getting Its Own Church, but Not as Fast as Poroshenko Thinks |publisher = [[Organization:Atlantic Council|Atlantic Council]] |first = James J. |last = Coyle |date= April 24, 2018 }} According to the Razumkov Center, among the 27.8 million Ukrainian members of Orthodox churches, allegiance to the Kiev Patriarchate has grown from 12% in 2000 to 25% in 2016. Much of the growth has come from believers who previously did not associate with either patriarchate.</ref>

<ref name="ITUC242018">{{cite news |url= https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/ukraine-seeks-church-independence-to-bolster-stand-against-russia-1.3472841?mode=amp |title= Ukraine seeks church independence to bolster stand against Russia |first= McLaughlin |last=Daniel |work= Irish Times |date= 24 April 2018 }}<br>{{cite news |url= https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-lawmakers-back-president-move-to-obtain-autocephalous-status-for-orthodox-church/29176970.html |title= Ukrainian Lawmakers Back President's Move To Obtain Autocephalous Status For Orthodox Church |work= Radio Free Europe |date= 19 April 2018  }}</ref>

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<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url = https://eu.greekreporter.com/2018/09/07/ecumenical-patriarchate-to-recognize-ukrainian-churchs-autocephaly-despite-moscows-disagreement/ |title=Ecumenical Patriarchate To Recognize Ukrainian Church's Autocephaly Despite Moscow's Disagreement {{!}} Greek Reporter Europe |website=eu.greekreporter.com|language=en-US |access-date=2018-10-16 }}</ref>
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==External links==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.cerkva.info|title=Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate|work=www.cerkva.info|language=Ukrainian, Russian, English}}
* {{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/canonsoc/|title=The Canons of the Eastern Orthodox Church|language=English}}
* [http://archive.cerkva.info/en/canonical-status.html Canonical status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church&nbsp;– Kiev Patriarchate]
*[https://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/blogs/ArticleImages_75741_190510_1-1512.jpg Decision of the UOC-KP to dissolve itself (in Ukrainian)]

==Further reading==
* {{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/ua/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/dhorievoy_column/78638|title=Філарет та його новий Київський патріархат|last=Goreev|first=Dmitry|date=23 January 2020|website=risu.org.ua|trans-title=Filaret and his new Kyiv Patriarchate|access-date=2020-01-28}}



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