INDEPENDENT UKRAINIAN CHURCH – INDEPENDENT STATE

From now on, Ukrainians will be free hosts in their homes. Decades will pass, but descendants will know that on this day the Ukrainian Orthodox Church became independent. Orthodoxy in Ukraine has become Ukrainian.

On December 15, during the Unification Council, Orthodox bishops announced the unification of Ukrainian churches into a single local independent church. Its official name sounds like this – Ukrainian Local Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Epiphanius of Pereyaslav and Bila Tserkva became the head of the Unified Local Orthodox Church. His candidacy was supported by a majority of bishops at the Unification Council in Kyiv.