In August 2024, the Verkhovna Rada approved a draft law on amendments to certain laws of Ukraine regarding the activities of religious organisations in Ukraine, which allows for the…
Since 2018, 1,502 religious communities have moved from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), the State Service of Ukraine for…
Almost 600 religious institutions have moved to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine since the beginning of the great war. This is evidenced by the data of Opendatabot, which has prepared…
Today, 6 December 2023, a service of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was held in the Ukrainian language in St Nicholas Cathedral in Kremenets, Ternopil Region. According to Vasyl…
On 1 September, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will switch to the New Julian calendar. The decision was made by the Council of Bishops chaired by His Beatitude Metropolitan Epifaniy…
On Sunday, 16 April, Archimandrite Avraamiy blessed Easter cakes in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, LB.ua has reported. This is the first Easter service of the…
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) is not a participant in the political struggle and is not controlled by any political force, its leader, Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All…
A people's assembly in the city of Khmelnytskyy voted by majority to transfer the Holy Protection Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate, UOC-MP) to the Orthodox…
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has imposed a ban on a former monk of the Holy Dormition Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, Archimandrite Avraamiy (Lotysh), who…
Metropolitan Epifaniy has approved Archimandrite Avraamiy (Lotysh), a member of the Spiritual Council of the Holy Dormition Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, to act as the abbot of the Lavra as…
The Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) has decided to form a religious organization in the Pochayiv Lavra (Monastery), which is leased by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of…
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine appealed to the Director General of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra National Reserve Oleksandr Rudnyk to hold a funeral service for the fallen soldiers of the…
As part of his visit to Kyiv, U.S. President Joseph Biden met with the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Epifaniy, the OCU reported on Facebook. "As part of the visit,…
The Head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Metropolitan Epifaniy, has begun his visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Istanbul, Turkey). There he met with Ecumenical Patriarch…