The war has made the Orthodox church a force for national unity. Where will it go from here?
centuries, however, orthodoxy in Ukraine was shrunk and then subordinated to Moscow. In 1596, the orthodox metropolitan of Kyiv rebelled against Moscow by leading fellow Westernizing priests back into the Roman Catholic church while retaining the Byzantine rite.
In other words, he declared that the mother church of Kyiv is Constantinople, not Moscow. Regardless of Ukrainians’ long political subjugation to Moscow — by 1924, most of Ukraine had been forcibly absorbed into the Soviet Union — Kyiv retained a direct, original claim to the spiritual heritage of Byzantine Christianity.
The exodus of parishes from the Moscow Patriarchate has meant rapid growth for the OCU, adding the equivalent of a “Cyprus or Macedonian Orthodox Church,” says Viktor Yelenskyi, a former parliamentarian who leads a state commission on freedom of conscience.
Two pieces of legislation now before the Ukrainian Rada would effectively prohibit Ukrainian churches from associating with the Russian Orthodox Church. Rostyslav Povlenko, a Rada member from ex-president Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party, supports a bill that would make affiliation with the Russian Orthodox Church illegal and push its Ukrainian wing to reach terms of agreement with the OCU patriarch.
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