Orthodox Church of Ukraine
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The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, also called Ukrainian Orthodox Church, is an Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine. It is one of 16 autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, 15th listed in diptych.
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, the headquarters of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Ivan Mazepa, the Hetman of Ukraine
The belltower of Kyiv's Saint Sophia Cathedral, one of many church buildings in Ukraine built during the reign of Hetman Mazepa
Metropolitan Epiphanius and Ukrainian President Poroshenko, right after the unification council
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was one of the three major Eastern Orthodox churches in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church began in 1917 during the dissolution of the Russian Empire as part of the Ukrainian independence movement and in order to restore the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that existed in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1620–1685 and was annexed by the Moscow Patriarchate without approval of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
