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	Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The responsibility of establishing a new Synod of Bishops was given to the Metropolitan-Archbishop of Warsaw, Dionisij Waledynskyj.
		The UAOC in Ukraine was then liquidated by the Soviets with the assistance of the Patriarchate of Moscow.
		Any UAOC hierarchs or clergy who remained in Ukraine and refused to join the Russian Church were executed or sent to concentration camps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ukrainian_Autocephalous_Orthodox_Church (595 words)

	Ukrainian Greek–Catholic Church / Church in Ukraine / Orthodox Churches:
		Ukrainian Greek–Catholic Church / Church in Ukraine / Orthodox Churches:
		The Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate is the former Ukrainian exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).
		For this reason, the name of Metropolitan Kostyantyn, head of the canonically recognized Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA (under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople) is commemorated in the churches of the UAOC.
	www.ugcc.org.ua /eng/church/orthodox (578 words)

	Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1930 the Ukrainian Church was forcibly united with the Russian Orthodox Church by the Soviet government.
		During the second world war the attacks on the church diminished as the Soviet government sought to encourage national unity in the face of Nazi aggression.
		The Russian Orthodox Church in the Ukraine was renamed the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and the hitherto clandestine Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was formally revived.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/east/uocs.html (206 words)

	UOC USA \| Diocesan News \| Three Voices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The head of the Russian Orthodox church did not consider it possible to appear in Kiev because of disagreements the ROC had with the unrecognized Ukrainian churches -- the Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Kiev patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church (UAOC).
		The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church was forced to leave Ukraine at the time of the arrival of the Red Army in 1944 and it continued its ministry in countries of the free world, USA, France, Germany, South America, and Australia.
		Existing in the diaspora gave the autocephalous church many characteristics that are very important for the contemporary age, the ability to respect the individual person and the ability to conduct open dialogue with other churches.
	www.uocofusa.org /news/three_voices.shtml (2070 words)

	Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the USA~Sobornopravna. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the USA (SOBRONOPRAVNA) is part of the historical Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, begun in Ukraine in 1921 and which continues in the Western Hemisphere and now again in the Motherland today.
		The UAOC (SOBORNOPRAVNA) is led by a Council of Hierarchs (Synod) consisting of Major-Archbisop & Metropolitan, Stephan, Primate & Archbishop of Toronto, Metropolitan Michael, Archbishop of Cleveland & the United States, Coadjutor to the Primate, Metropolitan Mosei of Ukraine and Bishops Danylo, Bohdan and Paul Peter, Auxiliary Bishops of Cleveland & the United States.
		The Cathedral Church of the eparchy is SS.
	www.uaoc.org /page1.html (638 words)

	Standing Episcopal Conference of Orthodox Bishops (AUOCA) - 1924 Tomos of Ecumenical Patriarchate
		In this Tomos, the transfer of the Kyivan Church to Moscow (1685) was declared uncanonical and independence of the Kyivan Metropolitanate (henceforth to be known as The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church) was fully restored.
		From 988 to 1686 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was in the canonical jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
		The Ukrainian Church throughout its ancient life (988-1686) was a canonical (canon 28, Fifth Ecumenical Council) jurisdiction of the Constantinople Patriarchate, but the latter officially renounced it in May of 1686 and gave all authority to the Patriarch of Moscow.
	www.ourchurch.com /view?pageID=146797 (1107 words)

	Orthodox church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Poland has a Metropolitan resident in Warsaw, and most of its faithful are of Belarusian or Ukrainian nationality and concentrated in eastern Poland.
		An iron plaque in the church indicates that it was built to commemorate the 1100th anniversary of the Cyrillo-Methodian mission in the Lemko Region and the Millennium of Christianity in Kievan Rus'.
		A new Orthodox church was constructed in Gorlice in the late 1980's to sever the local Lemko population.
	www.carpatho-rusyn.org /rich/ortho.htm (497 words)

	Religious - Christian - Belarus and Ukraine
		Filaret, Metropolitan of Minsk and Sluzk, Exarch of Patriarch [Aleksy II of the Russian Orthodox Church] for all Byelorussia.
		L'viv Diocese of [the] Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate.
		The Roman-Catholic Church in Ukraine (The Latin Rite).
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/relig_chr_bela_ukr.html (1898 words)

	Autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America - StatutesofOurChurch
		In 2002, the Church was re-established in Ukraine.
		The parish is a local community of the Church having at its head a duly appointed priest and consisting of Orthodox Christians who live in accordance with the teachings of the Orthodox Church, comply with the discipline and rules of the Church, and regularly support their parish.
		According to the teachings of the Church, he is the spiritual father and teacher of his flock and the celebrant of the liturgical worship established by the Church.
	www.uaocmoisey.org /HistoryStatutes/StatutesofOurChurch.dsp (8990 words)

	Church - Pluralism Profile #43 Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
		The congregation rejoiced at the announcement of Ukrainian independence in 1991. Irondequoit, where the church is located, is the sister city to the city of Poltava in Ukraine where many of the current members came from.
		A second monument commemorates the 7,000,000 Ukrainians who died in the famine in 1932-1933 caused by Stalin and the occupation by the Red army.
		In 2000, St. Mary the Protectoress Church was the subject of a Rochester Democrat and Chronicle news story concerning whether the church should align itself with the Mother Church in Kiev or remain with the Ukrainian Orthodox church of the United States.
	www.monroecc.edu /depts/sociology/pluralism/profile43.htm (1311 words)

	Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The beginnings of the Belarusan Autocephalous Orthodox Church go back to the end of the X-th century when the populations of the ancestral Belarusan principalities, then temporarily conquered by the Varagian prince Vladimir of Kiev, were nominally baptized by the missionaries from Byzantium.
		In spite of its diminished status it was the native Orthodox Church that gave a spiritual upbringing to a number of prominent men whose creativity made the XVI-th century the golden age of the old Belarusian culture.
		In August of 1942 in spite of German resistance, the All-Belarusan Orthodox Sobor (Convention) was assembled in Miensk and the autocephaly of the Belarusan Orthodox Church was proclaimed.
	www.belaoc.com /engl/introdaction3.htm (2594 words)

	Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After the allied victory in 1945 ethnically Russian or russophile hierarchs of the Orthodox Belarusian Autocephalous Church (as it was then called) broke their superficial allegiance to the cause of Belarusian autocephaly and in 1946 joined the Russian Orthodox Church in exile.
		On December 19, 1949 at the St. Nicholas Church in the refugee camp at Rosenhein in Bavaria, Vladimir Tamashchyk, who previously took monastic wows under the name of Vasil, was ordained by bishops of the UAOC Synod as the first bishop of the restored Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
		He proved to be an excellent church administrator and a farsighted planner who welcomed an honest cooperation with all civic or political emigree factions but staunchly resisted their interference in the ecclesiastical affairs.
	www.belaoc.com /engl/introdaction4.htm (1612 words)

	Religious Groups That Use 'Orthodox' in Their Names...
		A cohort of Pangratios is "Vicar Bishop" Kyrill (Esposito), reputedly consecrated by Pangratios in 1999.
		All clergy of the Roman Orthodox Church are Orthodox Benedictines.
		The Orthodox Catholic Church holds the Holy Scriptures and the traditions of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church as means by which the teachings of the Christ have been handed down to his followers and as the recording of the faith journey of the Church.
	aggreen.net /other_orthodox/other.html (10224 words)

	UOC USA \| HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		he Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA had its beginning in 1915 when several already existing parishes and clergy of other Orthodox and Catholic dioceses decided that the Ukrainian population of the USA had reached the level that this distinctive ethnic identity should have its own jurisdiction.
		The American-Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA was deeply affected by these facts, in that Archbishop John has been consecrated as one of the first three bishops of the Autocephalous Church in Ukraine and had not received the canonical recognition of world Orthodoxy.
		Bishop Mstyslav did, however, join with the majority of Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America parishes and Archbishop John was recognized as presiding prelate and Mstyslav as President of the Consistory of the now greatly expanded Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA.
	www.ukrainianorthodoxchurchusa.org /history (3680 words)

	PDS Russia Religion News July 2001
		By resolution of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox church of 10 May 1920 the Estonian Orthodox church was granted autonomy and this was confirmed by a tomos of Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and all-Rus of 26 April 1993.
		In this regard the participation of Orthodox representatives from Ukraine for further study of canonical questions that arise and of the question of the future status of the Ukrainian church was recognized as important.
		The Orthodox church is distributing the antisemitic "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." This was reported by the president of the Jewish National Culture Authority of Sverdlovsk province, Mikhail Oshtrakh, according to a report from Regions.ru.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/relnews/0107b.html (5233 words)

	SpiritHit News \| Europe \| Local initiative for merging Ukrainian Orthodox churches
		This orthodox monastery was founded in 1051 by monks Antoniy and Feodosiy in caves close to Kyiv.
		Kiev, Ukraine—A document regarding start of unification of the Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Kievan patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church (UAPTs) was signed on Friday [3 June] by priests of the churches in Ternopol.
		But the creation of a united local church in Ukraine is necessary and unification is not a matter of principle since there are no doctrinal, canonical, and even ideological reasons for the division.
	news.spirithit.com /index/europe/more/merging_ukrainian_orthodox_churches (344 words)

	Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church unites under Metropolitan Moisei
		On October 8, 2004, the Hierarchs of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Diaspora gathered in Kyiv to be formally incardinated under the Omofor of the Primate of the UAOC, Metropolitan Moisei, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine.
		During the Divine Liturgy, Bishop Wasilyj was consecrated as Bishop of the Lutzko-Volynska Eparchy, and Chor-Bishop Isaac was consecrated sub conditione and elevated as Bishop of the Cherkasko-Odesky Eparchy of the UAOC.
		The UAOC Churches in the diaspora are highly developed with a hierarchy of their own.
	www.brama.com /news/press/2004/10/041014uaoc.html (560 words)

	Ecumenical Relations - Sicilia Ortodossa - Ukrainian Orthodox Archdiocese of Palermo and All Italy
		The church of England was established in Sicily during the nineteenth century by several English families involved in the Marsala wine industry.
		In fact, their main church (the medieval Martorana in central Palermo), though decorated with splendid mosaic icons and considered as "Orthodox" during Norman rule early in the twelfth century, was given to the Diocese of Piana degli Albanesi only a few decades ago.
		Protestant churches obviously broke away from the Roman Church, the Orthodox Church has existed since the very inception of Christianity, flourishing in Greece, the Holy Land and eastern Europe long after the Schism.
	www.siciliaortodossa.org /faiths.htm (1125 words)

	Catholic World News : New Split among Ukrainian Orthodox
		First, the leader of an autocephalous Orthodox Church would ordinarily be chosen by the hierarchy of that body, not by the Patriarch of Constantinople.
		So far the only unity his presence has sparked is that of the leaders of the three existing Ukrainian Orthodox bodies, who have shown an unusual harmony in their agreement that Moyisey's group is not canonical and should not be allowed legal registration in Ukraine.
		The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (in effect a survival of Soviet times), refuses to acknowledge either the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (which broke away in 1992) or the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (established during the 1918-21 window of Ukrainian independence, and re-established shortly after Ukraine achieved independence in 1991).
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=19408 (476 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Archbishop met with hierarchs of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Andrij of Ivano-Frankivsk and Archbishop Makariy of Lviv, and with clergy who serve in the UAOC Patriarchal Office in Kyiv concerning recent developments in the life of the Church.
		The President expressed his deep desire to see a single, united Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and indicated that he will work closely with all sides, in particular the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to bring this unity about.
		The Archbishop met with Patriarch Filaret, head of the Kyivan Patriarchate, with Metropolitan Volodymyr, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate and with Archbishop Makariy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Lviv.
	www.standrewuoc.org /news.htm (1673 words)

	UOC USA \| Diocesan News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		is Eminence Archbishop Antony, ruling bishop of the Eastern Eparchy and President of the Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA recently visited Ukraine, accompanied by Hieromonk Daniel (Zelinsky), director of the Consistory Office of Public Relations, from 28 February — 11 March 2005.
		According to the press release of the Ukrainian Government, during their discussions, the President stressed that his government will not directly involve itself in ecclesiastical matters.
		“The position of the Mother Church, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, is that her daughter — the Moscow Patriarchate — consists of that territory, which it encompassed to the year 1686.
	www.ukrainianorthodoxchurchusa.org /news/PR_032505.shtml (562 words)

	Welcome to the Protection of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church
		Archbishop Ihor and the brotherhood see the solution of the indefinite status of the UAOC in adherence to the idea of the Testament of the late Patriarch Dymytri (Yarema): unification with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA and the UAOC in the diaspora, who are in canonical union with the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
		All the hierarchs of the UAOC and members of the Patriarchal Council participated in the sobor, which was held in the Patriarchal Building in Kyiv on 11 August 2005.
		The sobor highly praised and expressed deep gratitude to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Ukraine's government for their assistance and support in the unification process of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches into a single national Orthodox church for the consolidation of the Ukrainian nation and strengthening Orthodoxy on the territory of Ukraine.
	www.uockp.net (1322 words)

	RISU / English / News / 3 Bishops Leave Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church-Canonical:
		On 3 August 2005, three of the four Ukrainian Bishops of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church-Canonical in Ukraine (UAOC-C), Archbishop Wasyliy (Luts'k-Volyn Eparchy), Bishop Isaakiy (Cherkassy-Odessa Eparchy) and Bishop Vsevolod (Ternopil' Eparchy), along with their clergy and people, have left the UAOC-C. Notice of their departures was served on Patriarch Moisei both individually and personally.
		According to the Centre for Orthodox Unity it is believed that more priests from other regions have also expressed their intent to leave the jurisdiction of Patriarch Moisei.
		It is rumored that the Ukrainian hierarchs have appealed to Bishop Ioan, Bishop of the Midwest in the United States (UAOC-C) to come under his mantle and to grant their appeal to form a new, American-based jurisdiction under his protection.
	www.risu.org.ua /eng/news/article;6784 (642 words)

	Church of Ukraine - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Church of Ukraine is an autonomous Orthodox church whose primate is confirmed by the Church of Russia.
		Only the UOC-MP is currently in full communion with the Church of Russia and the remainder of the mainstream Orthodox Church.
		Orthodox churches of the Ukrainian tradition outside of Ukraine are mainly cared for by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, including:
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Church_of_Ukraine (168 words)

	Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Poltava, Ukraine
		Nevertheless it might be useful to Ukrainian Diaspora too, clearing the situation in Ukraine about Orthodox Church.
		NEOPHYTES — for those brothers and sisters of us, who have been thinking of drift of their existence and seeking the truly way to God, who are about to make first steps to Christianity in the stream of Orthodoxy of the Ukrainian-Byzantine tradition.
		ORTHODOX — for practising Christians keeping Orthodox beliefs, members of different denominations, dioceses, parishes.
	www.church.poltava.ua /1e.html (375 words)

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