Description

The publication of the proceedings of the first Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which was held in Kyiv in October 1921, contains the previously unpublished proceedings of the ecclesiastical council that laid the foundations for the independence (autocephaly) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Moscow Patriarchate. The documents were discovered in the Kyiv archives after Ukraine became independent in 1991. They have now been published by the Church Studies Program in cooperation with the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies and the Central State Archives of the Supreme Government Institutions of Ukraine. They are of crucial importance for the study of the history of the Ukrainian Church in general, and of the Ukrainian Orthodox church in particular. The publication of the volume was made possible by the generous support of the Publications Fund of the Ukrainian Theological Faculty at St. Andrew’s College in Winnipeg, St. John’s Fraternal Society of Edmonton, the Edmonton Branch of the Ukrainian Self-Reliance Association and the Stephania Bukachevsky-Pastushenko Archival Fund at CIUS.