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Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy (Ukrainian: Українська Православна Церква Київського Патрiархату; Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kievan Patriarchate or UOC-KP) is one of the two major Orthodox churches in Ukraine ^[1]

The modern history of the church begins in August, 1989, when the parish of the Church of Sts. Peter & Paul in Lviv announced its breach with the Russian Orthodox Church under the Patriarch of Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

In June, 1990, Metropolitan Mstyslav was elected in absentia as the church's head under the title of the Patriarch of Kiev & All Rus' - Ukraine. Patriarch Mstyslav was the last surviving hierarch of the founders of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. He was enthroned in November at St. Sophia Cathedral.

Patriarch Mstyslav (Skrypnyk) reposed in June, 1993 and was succeeded in October by Patriarch Volodomyr (Romaniuk).

Patriarch Volodomyr (Romaniuk) reposed in July, 1995. His funeral near St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev was marked by a clash between the funeral procession and law-enforcement forces.^{[citation needed]}

The current head of the Church, Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko), was enthroned in October, 1995. This led to yet another split: four more bishops left the Church with their parishes.^{[citation needed]}

Since his election as a Patriarch, Filaret remains very active in both church and state politics. He tried to gather around his Church all groups with a nationalist^{[citation needed]} orientation and all church organizations which did not have canonical recognition.^[2] On the other hand, he expressed repentance for his past support of prosecution of Ukrainian national churches, the Autocephalous and the Greek Catholic.^{[citation needed]} He currently leads the drive for his church to become a single Ukrainian national church. His attempts to gain a canonical recognition for his church remain unsuccessful to this day and a rival Ukrainian Orthodox Church canonically linked to the Moscow Patriarchate remains the only body whose canonic standing is universally recognized by the Eastern Orthodox communion.

• The Macedonian Orthodox and Montenegrin Orthodox Churches, which face a similar kind of non-recognition
• Orthodox Church in Italy, which is in full communion with Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kiev Patriarchy) and Montenegrin Orthodox Church

1. ^ According to The World Factbook], 19% of Ukrainian population associated themselves with Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate (cf. Orthodox (no particular jurisdiction) 16%, Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate 9%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic 6%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox 1.7%)
2. ^ Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus-Ukraine Filaret at the Institute of Religion and Society of the Ukrainian Catholic University

• Українська Православна Церква Київського Патрiархату (Ukrainian)
• Українська Православна Церква К. Патр. (Ukrainian)