PREREGUISITES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF UKRAINIAN ORTHODOXY IN WESTERN UKRAINE AT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Abstract

The purpose of the reseach: to find out the main factors and conditions for the establishment of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in Western Ukraine in the early 1990s. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, systematicity, scientificity, verification. authorial objectivity, moderate narrative constructivism, as well as the use of general (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and special historical (historical-systemic) methods. One of the leading methods used by the author was chronological, which made it possible to evaluate, outline and trace the movement of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in Western Ukraine at the end of the twentieth century. The scientific novelty is that for the first time in the Ukrainian historiography, on the basis of the analysis of previously unknown archival documents and materials, the characteristics of inter-church conflicts are given, the causes of the emergence of «Orthodox diversity» are clarified, the role of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the context of national life is examined, the problem is examined association of Orthodox denominations. Conclusions. The causes of internal conflict between the UOC KP and the UOC (administered by the Moscow Patriarchate) have a different vision of how to acquire autocephaly. In the ecclesiastical hierarchy, during the period under study, there was no unity and consolidation of efforts to address such an important ecclesiastical issue as gaining independence for the Church. The driving forces of conflict in the Ukrainian Orthodox community in the early 1990s were deep-rooted intolerance and uncompromising, both among believers and clergy.