Eparchy of Kyiv (Orthodox Church of Ukraine)

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Eparchy of Kyiv
Києво-Михайлівський Золотоверхий чоловічий монастир..jpg
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery cathedral
Location
TerritoryKyiv Oblast and Kyiv
HeadquartersKyiv
Information
DenominationEastern Orthodox
Sui iuris churchOrthodox Church of Ukraine
Established891/1620/1990
LanguageUkrainian
Current leadership
GovernanceEparchy
BishopEpiphanius I of Ukraine
For other uses, see Eparchy of Kyiv.

Eparchy of Kyiv (Ukrainian: Київська єпархія) is central eparchy (diocese) and metropolis of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The eparchy covers territory of Kyiv Oblast and most of the city of Kyiv.

The seat of Eparchy is in Kyiv, St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery cathedral. Eparchy is primatial, its head being the Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine.

There is ongoing conflict with "Honored Patriarch" Filaret for whom was reserved eparchy of Kyiv City with a cathedral seat in St.Volodymyr Cathedral, but since Filaret was not able to become a Patriarch and the Primate of newly reorganized church he decided to stay as Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarch.

History[]

The eparchy claims its heritage to the original eparchy of Kyiv that dates back to the establishment of the Old Russian (Ruthenian) Church under the jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Old Russian (Ruthenian) Kyiv diocese (or archdiocese) is first mentioned in 891, as the 60th by ranks of honor in the list of departments subordinate to the Patriarch of Constantinople, and 61st in the charter of Emperor Leo (886-911). From its beginnings, eparchy of Kyiv was central or primatial diocese of the Metropolitanate, which also included a number of other dioceses, created after the baptism of Kyivan Rus during the rule of Great Prince Vladimir in 988.

In reality the eparchy history starts since 1685-1686, when the eparchy of Kyiv, along with all the Metropolitan of Kyiv, has been "transferred" from the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Moscow.

By Tsar Peter I the Metropolitan of Kyiv in the early 18th century became known as archbishop. This lasted until the middle of the century, when the decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, they were again granted the dignity of the Metropolitan. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Kyiv diocese consisted of two parts on the right and left banks of the Dnieper River, within subsequently ceded to Chernihiv and Poltava provinces. Most of the diocese called itself "the Diocese of Kyiv" and smaller - "Abroad". The jurisdiction of the metropolitan of Kyiv in the 18th century, was chaplain of Warsaw within Poland.

Since 1918, the decision of the All-Russian Church Council of 1917-1918 Kyiv bishops again become the heads of not only the diocese, but the Church and the autonomous region within Ukraine. After its liquidation by order of Patriarch Tikhon was established Ukrainian Exarchate. The Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, 25-27 October 1990, established autonomous and self-governing Ukrainian Orthodox Church, with its primatial Diocese of Kyiv.

In 2009–2013 eparchy was split between right-bank (Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi) and left-bank (Kyiv and the all Ukraine). In 2013 division changed with the eparchy covering whole Kyiv Oblast headed by eparch of Pereyaslav and Bila Tserkva and the Kiev City headed by eparch of Kyiv and the all Ukraine.

During the unification of church and its reorganization in 2019, the eparchy was merged again and also included eparchy of Kyiv of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. The mother church of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church St. Andrew's Church was reserved as a stauropegion church of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople since the original see in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is still held by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Ruling bishops[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ The hierarchy which was consecrated in 1620 was legalized by the government in a 1632 agreement that permitted both the disuniate Greek Orthodox and uniate Greek Catholic jurisdictions within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 64.
  2. ^ a b Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 65.
  3. ^ Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 66.
  4. ^ a b Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 77.
  5. ^ Heorhii, Metropolitan. Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  6. ^ a b Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 78.
  7. ^ a b Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 79.
  8. ^ a b Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 80.
  9. ^ a b c Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 81.
  10. ^ a b c Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 82.
  11. ^ a b c Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 83.
  12. ^ Epstein, S. Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000–1400. JHU Press, 2007
  13. ^ Subtelny 2009, p. ? (ebook).
  14. ^ Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 223.
  15. ^ Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 225.
  16. ^ Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 226.

Bibliography[]

This article incorporates text from List of Metropolitans of Kiev at OrthodoxWiki which is licensed under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL.
  • Blažejovskyj, Dmytro (1990). Hierarchy of the Kyivan Church (861–1990). Vydanni͡a Ukraïnsʹkoho katolʹytsʹkoho universytetu im. Sv. Klymenta Papy Editiones Universitatis Catholicae Ucrainorum S. Clementis Papae Sacrum Ucrainae millenium. Vol. 72. Rome: [Ukraïnsʹkyĭ katolyt͡sʹkyĭ universytet im. Sv. Klymenta Papy]. OCLC 22834909.
  • Subtelny, Orest (2009). Ukraine: a history (4th ed.). Toronto [u.a.]: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-44269728-7.

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