This book explores the complex and dramatic trajectories of the coexistence of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine with various political regimes across a broad historical timeline and amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war.

The author traces the repeated attempts to gain independence from the Moscow ecclesiastical center and the challenging path toward achieving autocephalous status. The book highlights multiple dimensions of the situation within Ukrainian Orthodoxy during the development of Ukraine’s sovereign statehood.

For everyone interested in the history and contemporary state of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, interdenominational relations, and church–state interactions.