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    Why religion and politics are a fickle mix in Ukraine

    Sep 04, 2019 4 minutes
    The Rev. Nikolai Danilevich, sitting in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra headquarters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, says that cases of “raiding” of the church’s parishes by proponents of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine have dropped to almost none since President Zelenskiy’s election.

    For nearly three decades, Mykhailo Denysenko, best known today as Patriarch Filaret, has waged a battle to unite Ukraine’s 25 million Orthodox believers under a single Ukrainian church aligned with an independent Ukraine. His primary obstacle has been the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), which is home to the lion’s share of Ukraine’s divided Orthodox communion.

    At its peak last year, Patriarch Filaret’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) had approximately a third of Ukrainian believers. And time and historical dynamics certainly appeared to be on Patriarch Filaret’s side to consolidate the rest.

    But that all got turned on its ear last year when the struggle between the Kyiv- and Moscow-aligned patriarchates became ensnared in

    Mixing church and stateAn end to the fight over parishes?

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