Ukrainian Eastern Rite as a Condition for Religious Ecumenism

Abstract

Among the many problems facing independent Ukraine, perhaps the most important is the problem of church maladjustment. The spiritual, religious confrontation that has been going on in our country for one and a half decades has a number of opposite vectors: a) the UOC's recognition of the canonicality of non-Ukrainian Orthodox communities and its unwillingness to cooperate with them; b) the reluctance of representatives of the Ukrainian branches of Orthodoxy (the UOC-KP and UAOC) to follow a deeper understanding with another branch of the Ukrainian Church - the UGCC; c) property claims, as well as the struggle for financial income between different denominations.