ELECTION OF UKRAINIANS TO HIGHEST CLERGY OF KYIV DEPARTMENT AS A WAY TO THE AUTOCEPHALY OF UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURC

Authors

  • Metropolitan Epiphaniy Dumenko Автор

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35332/2411-4677.2016.16.1

Keywords:

Kyiv Metropolis, Constantinople Church, the Cathedral, the patriarch, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop.

Abstract

This article is devoted to the 50 years-long service of His Holiness Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine Filaret at the Kyiv department. It discusses attempts directed at achieving the autocephaly of Ukrainian Orthodox Church since the baptism of Rus carried out by Prince Volodymyr and up to the present. The article investigates into the election and service of metropolitans of Ukrainian origin.

Published

2016-06-10