Transition of church communities to OCU

The transition of church communities to the OCU is the process of transition of parishes, previously affiliated to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC MP), from that metropolis to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

This process began with the Unification Council of 15 December 2018, which resulted in the creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

In general, in four years after the unification council, almost 1,500 religious communities joined the OCU.

(uk) On 10 December 2018, the UOC MP published its annual report stating that it had 12,092 parishes by the end of 2018 (2017: 12,069).

[1] From 15 December 2018, the transition of UOC MP parishes to the OCU occurred as follows, numerically by month:[10]

The Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, built in 1779 in Vinnytsia, was one of the first to transfer from the UOC (MP) to the OCU in December 2018