Local Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Khmelnytskyi Television, January 2001. The story is dedicated to the Local Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.

On the video: Kyiv, arrival of the Khmelnytskyi delegation, meeting with Filaret; delegations in the hall, representatives of Orthodox churches from Canada, the USA, Australia and Greece; various plans of the hall, speeches; comments by Filaret, talks about the main topics of the Council, the desire to receive a Tomos, writing letters calling for the creation of a local Ukrainian Orthodox Church; Volodymyr's Council, liturgy.

Commented by Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine.

Host — Mykola Khomenko.

Reference: In the 1990s, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) consistently advocated the idea of ​​autocephaly for the Ukrainian Church, seeking canonical recognition and independence from the Moscow Patriarchate, which led to its conflicting position in the Orthodox world and internal church tensions. At the Local Council in January 2001, the UOC-KP attempted to consolidate its own position, outline its attitude to state-church relations and strengthen institutional legitimacy, as well as confirm its course towards the unification of Ukrainian Orthodoxy.