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Eparchies of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is subdivided into forty-five eparchies:

Many eparchies were established in the beginning and mid 1990s as part of the Ukrainian autocephalous religious movement initiated in 1989 during the fall of the Soviet Union and with the help of the Ukrainian diaspora.

Existing eparchies

Important vicariates

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine has at least two vicar bishops who assist the Metropolitan of Kyiv and lead national communities in Ukraine.

  • Vicar Bishop of Olbia (Greek communities)
  • Vicar Bishop (Romanian communities)

Liquidated or not registered

  • Eparchy of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia (UAOC) - not registered
  • Eparchy of Cherkasy and Kirovohrad (UAOC) - not registered (Bishops: Yakiv (Makarchuk), Bohdan (Kulyk), Ilarion (Savchuk))
  • Eparchy of Lviv and Sambir (UAOC) - not registered
  • Eparchy of Odesa and Black Sea (UAOC) - unofficial (Bishops: Bohdan (Kulyk), Tykhon (Petranyuk))
  • Eparchy of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi - not registered (it was reserved for Bishop of East Moldova)
  • Eparchy of Korsun - not registered (it was reserved for Metropolitan of Paris)
  • Eparchy of Chernivtsi and Kitsman - merged with the Eparchy of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna (Bishops: Nykon (Kalember), Varlaam (Pylypyshyn), Mark (Hrynchevskyi), Onufriy (Khavruk))
  • Eparchy of Chernivtsi and Khotyn (UAOC) - merged with the Eparchy of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna (Bishop: Herman (Semanchuk))

Transformed

  • Eparchy of Khmelnytskyi (UAOC) → Eparchy of Kamianets-Podilskyi
  • Eparchy of Kyiv (UAOC) → Eparchy of Vyshhorod

Abandoned extra-jurisdictional eparchies

  • Eparchy of Bogorodsk (UOC-KP) - abandoned, based near Moscow in Noginsk
  • Eparchy of Belgorod (UOC-KP) - abandoned, based Belgorod
  • East Moldovan Eparchy (UOC-KP) - turned to the Romanian Orthodox Church
  • Eparchy of Paris (UOC-KP), abandoned, based in Paris
  • Eparchy of Korsun (UOC-KP), abandoned (Greece)

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