Each ruling bishop is put in charge of a subdivision of OCU called an eparchy.
Ruling bishops can be awarded higher ranks of archbishop and metropolitan for their services to the Church.
Vicar bishops cannot be chosen to fill a seat in the Holy Synod of the OCU (with one exception).
The church revival in Ukraine has started on efforts of bishop of the Ukrainian Exarchate Ioan (Bodnarchuk) in 1989-90.
In December of 1992 Bishop Danyil finally joined UOC-KP, while at the same time Archbishop of Lviv Petro decided to stay as part of the original Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).