Eparchy of Kyiv (Orthodox Church of Ukraine)

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

Eparchy of Kyiv
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery cathedral
Location
Territory	Kyiv Oblast
Headquarters	Kyiv
Information
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox
Sui iuris church	Orthodox Church of Ukraine
Established	891/1620/1990
Language	Ukrainian
Current leadership
Governance	Eparchy
Bishop	Epiphanius I of Ukraine

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 2009–2019 eparchy was split between eparchy of Kyiv (serving the city of Kyiv) and eparch of Pereyaslav and Bila Tserkva (serving Kyiv Oblast).

During the unification of church and its reorganization, the eparchy also included eparchy of Kyiv of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

Ruling bishops

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople 988(?)–1004(?)[1] Michael and Leontius 988–1018 Theophylact 1008(?)–1017(?)[2] John 1037(?)–1043(?)[2] Teopempt 1051–(?)[3] Hilarion 1055(?)–(?)[4] Ephraim 1072(?)–(?)[4] George (Jurij)[5] 1077(?)–1089[6] John II Prodrom 1090–1091[6] John III 1097–1101(?)[7] Nicholas 1104–1121[7] Nikephoros 1122–1126[8] Nikita 1130(?)–1145(?)[8] Michael II 1147–1159 Kliment Smoliatich 1156–1159[9] Kostiantyn 1161–1163[9] Teodor 1164–1166[9] John IV 1167–1177(?)[10] Costantine II (?)–(?)[10] John V 1182(?)–1197(?)[10] Nikephoros II 1210(?)–1220[11] Matthew 1224–1233[11] Сyril 1237–(?) [11] Joseph 1241–1246 Peter (Akerovich) (as Archbishop of Ruthenia),[12] 1246–1620 no data 1620–1631 Job 1631–1633[lower-alpha 1] Isaiah 1633–1646 Peter III 1647–1657 Sylvester 1657–1663[14] Dionisius II 1663–1675[15] Joseph V 1663–1679[16] Anton Vinnicky 1679–1685 vacant

Moscow Patriarchate Gedeon Chetvertinsky Varlaam Jasinsky Joasaph Krokovsky Varlaam Vonatovich Raphael Zaborovsky Timothy Shcherbatsky Arsenius Mohylansky Gavril Kremenetsky Hilarion Kondratovsky (acting) Samuel Myslavsky Hierothenius Malitsky Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni Serapion Aleksandrovsky Yevgeny Bolkhovitinov Filaret Amfiteatrov Isidore Nikolsky Arsenius Moskvin Filothy Uspiensky Platon Gorodetsky Joannicius Rudniev Silvester Malevansky (acting) Theognost Lebiediev Flavian Gorodetsky Vladimir Bogoyavlensky Nicodemus (Krotkov) (acting) Antony (Khrapovitsky) Nazarius Blinov (acting) Michael Yermakov (acting) Vasilius Bogdashevsky (acting) Makarius Karmazin (acting) Michael Yermakov Sergius Kuminsky (acting) Georgius Dieliyev (acting) Dimitrius Verbitsky Sergius Grishin Constantine Dyakov Alexander Petrovsky (acting) Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church, Panteleimon Rudyk John Sokolov Joasaph Leliukhin Alipius Khotovitsky (acting) Autocephalous church Filaret (Denysenko) Epiphanius I of Ukraine

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. Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 65.
3. Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 66.
4. Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 77.
5. Heorhii, Metropolitan. Encyclopedia of Ukraine
6. Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 78.
7. Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 79.
8. Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 80.
9. Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 81.
10. Blazejovskyj 1990, p. 82.
11. 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. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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