PHOTO FOLLOW-UP: Sobor of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

On June 5-6, the First All-Ukrainian Sobor of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church took place in Kiev. The Sobor announced the rebirth of the UAOC on its native land and proclaimed Metropolitan Mstyslav as patriarch of Kiev and all of Ukraine. The Sobor also declared that Archbishop Ioann, metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, is the locum tenens of the Kiev See. Metropolitan Mstyslav, who heads the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Diaspora, had been invited to participate in the historic sobor - the first such gathering since the liquidation of the Church, its hierarchy and clergy by the Soviet government in the 1930s - but was denied a visa by Soviet authorities. (Yaryna Tymoshenko, who prepared this report, is acting secretary of the UAOC Sisterhood.)

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, July 22, 1990, No. 29, Vol. LVIII

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