Eparchies of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
As of 2022, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is subdivided into forty-five eparchies:[1]
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
| # | Eparchy | Previous jurisdiction[a] |
Established | Bishops | Cathedral/Center |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eparchy of Bila Tserkva | own | 2023[2] | Archbishop Yevstratiy (Zoria) | Transfiguration Cathedral, Bila Tserkva |
| 2 | Eparchy of Cherkasy | UOC-KP | 1992 | Bishop Nestor (Kulish) Metropolitan Ioan (Yaremenko) |
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Cherkasy |
| 3 | Eparchy of Chernihiv | UAOC→UOC-KP | 1990[b] | Archbishop Roman (Balashchuk) Bishop Polikarp (Pakholyuk) Metropolitan Volodymyr (Romaniuk) Bishop Varlaam (Pylypyshyn) Bishop Nykon (Kalember) Bishop Mykhayil (Zinkevych) Bishop Feodosiy (Paikush) Bishop Sevastian (Vozniak) Bishop Ilarion (Protsyk) Archbishop Yevstratiy (Zorya) Archbishop Antoniy (Filrey) |
Catherine's Church, Chernihiv |
| 4 | Eparchy of Chernivtsi | UAOC→UOC-KP | 1990[c] | Metropolitan Danyil (Kovalchuk) Metropolitan Ioasaf (Vasylykiv) |
Cathedral of Saint Paraskeva of Serbia, Chernivtsi |
| 5 | Eparchy of Crimea | UOC-KP | 1996 | Bishop Antoniy (Makhota) Metropolitan Klyment (Kushch) |
Simferopol[d] |
| 6 | Eparchy of Dnipropetrovsk | UOC-KP | 1993 | Archbishop Spyrydon (Babskyi) Archbishop Adrian (Staryna) Archbishop Symeon (Zinkevych) |
Cathedral of the Icon of the Mother of God, Dnipro |
| 7 | Eparchy of Donetsk | UOC-KP | 1993[e] | Bishop Polikarp (Huts) Bishop Izyaslav (Karha) Bishop Ioann (Zynovyev) Bishop Ioasaf (Vasylykiv) Bishop Volodymyr (Polishchuk) Archbishop Yuriy (Yurchyk) Metropolitan Serhiy (Horobtsov) |
Mariupol |
| 8 | Eparchy of Donetsk and Sloviansk | UAOC | 2017[f] | Bishop Sava (Fryziuk) | St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sloviansk |
| 9 | Eparchy of Drohobych and Sambir | UOC→UOC-KP | 1990[g] | Bishop Andriy (Horak) Metropolitan Ioann (Bodnarchuk) Archbishop Feodosiy (Petsyna) Bishop Matfei (Shevchuk) Bishop Mykhayil (Bondarchuk) Archbishop Yakiv (Makarchuk) |
Streetensky Cathedral, Drohobych |
| 10 | Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk | UAOC | 1990[h] | Metropolitan Andriy (Abramchuk) | Holy Intercession Cathedral, Ivano-Frankivsk |
| 11 | Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk and Halych | UOC-KP | 1996[i] | Bishop Volodymyr (Polishchuk) Metropolitan Ioasaf (Vasylykiv) |
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Ivano-Frankivsk |
| 12 | Eparchy of Kamianets-Podilskyi | own | 2024[j][4] | Archbishop Herman (Semanchuk) | Temple of the Holy Apostol and Evangelist John, The Theologian, Kamianets-Podilskyi |
| 13 | Eparchy of Kharkiv | UOC-KP | 1999 | Bishop Flavian (Pasichnyk) Bishop Lavrentiy (Myhovych) Archbishop Mytrofan (Butynskyi) |
Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Kharkiv |
| 14 | Eparchy of Kharkiv and Poltava | UAOC | 1992 | Bishop Roman (Popenko) Archbishop Ihor (Isichenko) Bishop Lavrentiy (Myhovych) Archbishop Afanasiy (Shkurupiy) |
Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel, Poltava |
| 15 | Eparchy of Kherson | UOC-KP | 1997[k] | Archbishop Damian (Zamarayev) Bishop Nykodym (Kulyhin) |
Cathedral of the Ascension of the Lord, Kherson |
| 16 | Eparchy of Khmelnytskyi | UOC-KP | 1992 | Bishop Ioan (Siopko) Bishop Stefan (Ladchuk) Bishop Mefodiy (Kudriakov) Metropolitan Antoniy (Makhota) Archbishop Pavlo (Yurystyi) Metropolitan Symeon (Shostatsky) |
St. Andrew's Cathedral, Khmelnytskyi |
| 17 | Eparchy of Kolomyia | UOC-KP | 1997 | Bishop Ioan (Boychuk) Bishop Yulian (Hatala) |
Transfiguration Cathedral, Kolomyia |
| 18 | Eparchy of Kyiv | UOC→UOC-KP | 1990[l] | Metropolitan Filaret of Ukraine reservation for Patriarch Mstyslav of Ukraine Patriarch Volodymyr of Ukraine Patriarch Filaret of Ukraine Metropolitan Epiphanius I of Ukraine |
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv |
| 19 | Eparchy of Kropyvnytskyi | UOC-KP | 1992 | Bishop Mykhayil (Dutkevych) Archbishop Serafym (Verzun) Bishop Mark (Levkiv) |
Kropyvnytskyi |
| 20 | Eparchy of Luhansk | UOC-KP | 2000 | Bishop Vsevolod (Matviyevskyi) Bishop Tykhon (Petranyuk) Bishop Afanasiy (Yavorskyi) Bishop Lavrentiy (Myhovych) |
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Luhansk |
| 21 | Eparchy of Lviv | UAOC | 1989 | Metropolitan Ioann (Bodnarchuk) Metropolitan Petro (Petrus) Metropolitan Makariy (Maletych) |
Dormition Church, Lviv |
| 22 | Eparchy of Lviv and Sokal | UOC-KP | 1993 | Archbishop Volodymyr (Romaniuk) Metropolitan Andriy (Horak) Metropolitan Dymytriy (Rudiuk) |
Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, Lviv |
| 23 | Eparchy of Mykolaiv | UAOC→UOC-KP | 1991 | Bishop Panteleimon (Romanovskyi) Bishop Varsonofiy (Mazurak) Bishop Oleksiy (Tsaruk) Metropolitan Volodymyr (Ladyka) |
Cathedral of the Kasperovo Icon of the Mother of God, Mykolaiv |
| 24 | Eparchy of Mukachevo and Carpathians | UAOC | 2015 | Bishop Viktor (Begy) | Cathedral of the Ukrainian Apostle Andrew the First-Called, Uzhhorod |
| 25 | Eparchy of Odesa | UOC-KP | 1993 | Bishop Stefan (Ladchuk) Archbishop Nestor (Kulish) Archbishop Ioann (Zynovyev) Archbishop Serafym (Verzun) Bishop Payisiy (Dmokhovskyi) Archbishop Yakiv (Makarchuk) Bishop Mark (Hrynchevskyi) Bishop Pavlo (Yurystyi) Archbishop Afanasiy (Yavorskyi) |
Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, Odesa |
| 26 | Eparchy of Pereiaslav and Vyshneve | UOC-KP | 2009 | Metropolitan Dmytriy (Rudyuk) Metropolitan Epifaniy (Dumenko) Metropolitan Oleksandr (Drabynko) |
Savior and Transfiguration Cathedral, Kyiv |
| 27 | Eparchy of Poltava | UOC-KP | 2002 | Metropolitan Yevseviy (Politylo) Bishop Mykhayil (Bondarchuk) Metropolitan Fedir (Bubniuk) |
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Mother of God, Poltava |
| 28 | Eparchy of Rivne | UAOC→UOC-KP | 1990 | Bishop Antoniy (Masendych) Bishop Polikarp (Pakholyuk) Archbishop Roman (Balashchuk) Archbishop Serafym (Verzun) Metropolitan Danyil (Chokalyuk) Metropolitan Yevseviy (Politylo) Metropolitan Ilarion (Protsyk) |
Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Rivne |
| 29 | Eparchy of Rivne and Volhynia | UAOC | 1996 (1990)[m] | Bishop Ioan (Boychuk) Bishop Havryil (Kryzyna) |
Cathedral of the Ascension of Christ, Rivne |
| 30 | Eparchy of Sumy | UOC-KP | 1996 | Bishop Herontiy (Khovanskyi) Bishop Mykhayil (Zinkevych) Archbishop Mefodiy (Sribnyak) |
Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Sumy |
| 31 | Eparchy of Taurida | UAOC | 1992[n] | Bishop Borys (Kharko) | Saint Michael's Church, Lazurne |
| 32 | Eparchy of Ternopil | UOC-KP | 1992[o] | Metropolitan Vasyliy (Bodnarchuk) Metropolitan Nestor (Pysyk) |
Cathedral of Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Elena, Ternopil |
| 33 | Eparchy of Ternopil and Buchach | UAOC | 1990 | Bishop Vasyliy (Bodnarchuk) Metropolitan Mefodiy (Kudriakov) Archbishop Mstyslav (Huk) Archbishop Tykhon (Petraniuk) |
Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, Ternopil |
| 34 | Eparchy of Ternopil and Terebovlia | UOC-KP | 2009 | Archbishop Pavlo (Kravchuk) | Chortkiv |
| 35 | Eparchy of Uzhhorod and Khust | UAOC | 1990[p] | Bishop Volodymyr (Romaniuk) Bishop Kyrylo (Mykhailiuk) |
Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles, Uzhhorod |
| 36 | Eparchy of Vinnytsia and Bar | UOC-MP | 2018 | Metropolitan Symeon (Shostatsky) Bishop Pavlo (Yurystyi) |
Transfiguration Cathedral, Vinnytsia |
| 37 | Eparchy of Vinnytsia and Tulchyn | UOC-KP | 1992 | Bishop Sofroniy (Vlasov) Bishop Volodymyr (Ladyka) Bishop Pankratiy (Tarnavskyi) Archbishop Herontiy (Khovanskyi) Archbishop Onufriy (Khavruk) Metropolitan Mykhayil (Bondarchuk) |
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Vinnytsia |
| 38 | Eparchy of Vinnytsia and Bratslav | UAOC | 1995 | Metropolitan Roman (Balashchuk) | Cathedral of the Icon of the Mother of God, Vinnytsia |
| 39 | Eparchy of Volhynia | UOC-KP | 1992 | Archbishop Spyrydon (Babskyi) Bishop Serafym (Verzun) Metropolitan Ioann (Bodnarchuk) Metropolitan Yakiv (Panchuk) Metropolitan Mykhail (Zinkevych) |
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, Lutsk |
| 40 | Eparchy of Volodymyr-Volynskyi | UOC-KP | 2017 | Archbishop Matfei (Shevchuk) | Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, Volodymyr |
| 41 | Eparchy of Vyshhorod | own | 2024[q][5] | Archbishop Agapitus (Humenyuk) | |
| 42 | Eparchy of Zakarpattia | UOC-KP | 2003 | Bishop Kyrylo (Mykhailiuk) Bishop Varsonofiy (Rudnik) |
Cathedral of Venerable Amfilochius of Pochaiv, Uzhhorod |
| 43 | Eparchy of Zhytomyr and Ovruch | UAOC→UOC-KP | 1992 | Bishop Serafym (Verzun) Archbishop Izyaslav (Karha) Bishop Paisiy (Kukharchuk) |
St. Michael's Cathedral, Zhytomyr |
| 44 | Eparchy of Zhytomyr and Polissia | UAOC | 1992 | Bishop Sofroniy (Vlasov) Bishop Ioan (Boychuk) Archbishop Volodymyr (Shlapak) |
Cathedral of St. Equal-to-the-Apostle Mary Magdalene, Zhytomyr |
| 45 | Eparchy of Zaporizhzhia | UOC-KP | 1996 | Archbishop Hryhoriy (Kachan) Bishop Fotiy (Davydenko) |
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Zaporizhzhia |
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.
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[9] (it was reserved for Bishop of East Moldova)
- Eparchy of Korsun - not registered[9] (it was reserved for Metropolitan of Paris)
- Eparchy of Chernivtsi and Kitsman - merged with the Eparchy of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna[6] (Bishops: Nykon (Kalember), Varlaam (Pylypyshyn), Mark (Hrynchevskyi), Onufriy (Khavruk))
- Eparchy of Chernivtsi and Khotyn (UAOC) - merged with the Eparchy of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna[6] (Bishop: Herman (Semanchuk))
Transformed
- Eparchy of Khmelnytskyi (UAOC) → Eparchy of Kamianets-Podilskyi[7]
- Eparchy of Kyiv (UAOC) → Eparchy of Vyshhorod[10]
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)
See also
- List of bishops of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
- Eparchies and Metropolitanates of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Eparchies of the Romanian Orthodox Church
- Eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church
- List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
Notes
- ^ before the 2018 union
- ^ It was among the first eparchies of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, which in 1992 became part of the UOC-KP.
- ^ It was among the first eparchies of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, which in 1992 became part of the UOC-KP.
- ^ Due to the occupation of Crimea, the eparchial administration received the approval from the Holy Synod to change its location on 13 July 2025.[3]
- ^ Existed since 1992, it was vacant until 1993.
- ^ Existed since 1991, it was vacant until 2017.
- ^ Following the 1992 Kharkiv schism and the 1992 unification council, the original "Lviv—Drohobych" eparchy ruled by bishop Andriy was split between two bishops, Andriy and Volodymyr. Bishop Andriy, who was the previously ruling bishop of the Lviv—Drohobych eparchy, became the ruling bishop of the Drohobych—Sambir eparchy, while Archbishop Volodymyr became the ruling bishop of the Lviv—Sokal eparchy.
- ^ In 1992, the eparchy also joined the UOC-KP, but in 1995, it became among the first to support the revival of the UAOC and remained so until the 2018 unification council.
- ^ Following the reinstatement of the UAOC, a separate eparchy within the UOC-KP, which remained vacant until 1997.
- ^ The eparchy is considered a successor of the Eparchy of Khmelnytskyi (UAOC), which was created in 1991.[4] For an extended time, it remained vacant and was sometimes ruled by troubled bishops. In 2024, it was created after the reduction of eparchies in Chernivtsi Oblast. Previous bishops of the Eparchy of Khmelnytskyi (UAOC): Antoniy (Fialko) and Adrian (Kulyk).
- ^ It was created in 1997, after the 1997 Kherson religious scandal, when the Kherson city parish, which was part of the Russian Church, protested against the ruling bishop and was accepted into the Ukrainian Church.
- ^ Following the 1992 Kharkiv schism, the metropolitan eparchy of Kyiv, ruled by Metropolitan Filaret (Denysenko), became the metropolitan eparchy of the United Ukrainian church, and the metropolitan see was reserved for the diasporan Hierarch Mstyslav, who led the UAOC. Patriarch Mstyslav refused the honor. During the 2018 unification council, arrangements were made for Metropolitan Filaret to stay as a ruled bishop of his eparchy, however due to arguments between Metropolitans Filaret and Epiphanius, the arrangements were canceled, and the eparchy was restructured.
- ^ Following the 1992 unification council, the UAOC lost jurisdiction in both of its eparchies in Volhynia. In 1996, the eparchy of Rivne was reinstated, and later in 1997, the vacant eparchy of Lutsk was merged into it. Soon after the merger in 1997, the eparchy became vacant until 2018. Bishops of the Eparchy of Lutsk (UAOC): Mykolai (Hrokh) and Feoktyst (Peresada).
- ^ Created in 1992, the eparchy remained vacant until 2015.
- ^ In 1995, the eparchy was divided into the Eparchy of Ternopil and Buchach (UOC-KP) and the Eparchy of Ternopil and Kremenets. In 2012, the two eparchies were merged again. Bishops of the Eparchy of Kremenets: Yakiv (Panchuk) and Iov (Pavlyshyn).
- ^ Created in 1990, the Eparchy of Zakarpattia was vacant in 1991 – 2014.
- ^ Created in 2024, the Eparchy of Vyshhorod was proclaimed a successor of the Eparchy of Kyiv (UAOC).[5] Bishops of Kyiv (UAOC): Mstyslav of Ukraine, Demetrius of Ukraine, Methodius of Ukraine, Macarius of Ukraine.
References
- ^ Доповідь Предстоятеля на розширеному засіданні Архієрейського Собору 24 травня 2022 р. (Primate report at the expanded session of the Holy Hierarchical Assembly on 24 May 2022). www.pomisna.info
- ^ "Створено Білоцерківську єпархію ПЦУ". BC News.
- ^ Офіційне повідомлення про засідання Священного Синоду 13 липня 2025 р. www.pomisna.info. 13 July 2025
- ^ a b "Офіційне повідомлення про засідання Священного Синоду 2 лютого 2024 р." www.pomisna.info.
- ^ a b "Holy Synod session documents of 2 February 2024". www.pomisna.info/. Orthodox Church of Ukraine. 2024-02-05. Archived from the original on 5 February 2024. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ a b c Румунський вікаріат на Буковині: єпископ Феогност закликав румуномовні релігійні громади області доєднуватися до ПЦУ. suspilne.media. 5 April 2024
- ^ a b "Офіційне повідомлення про засідання Священного Синоду 7 березня 2024 р." www.pomisna.info. Orthodox Church of Ukraine. 2024-03-07. Archived from the original on 8 March 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
- ^ "Рішення Румунської Православної Церкви як глобальна проблема Вселенського православ'я". www.keuapc.org. Eparchy of Mukachevo-Carpathia. 2024-03-10. Archived from the original on 23 January 2026. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
- ^ a b "Журнали засідання Священного Синоду від 5 лютого 2019 р." OCU (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2025-03-26.
- ^ "Документи засідання Священного Синоду 2 лютого 2024 р." www.pomisna.info. Orthodox Church of Ukraine. 2024-02-05. Archived from the original on 5 February 2024. Retrieved 5 February 2024.