The Ukrainian Question

In 1686 the metropolitanate of Kiev passed under Moscow by a letter of the Patriarch of Constantinople, and the two churches have never agreed on what that letter did. In 2018 the Ecumenical Patriarchate judged it a temporary arrangement, revoked it, lifted the anathemas on two bodies not in communion, and in January 2019 granted a tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Moscow broke communion with Constantinople, and afterwards with Alexandria, Greece and Cyprus as each recognised the new church. Most of the other local churches have not recognised it, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under Moscow remained the largest body in the country and declared its own independence from Moscow in 2022 under the conditions of the war. This site states the positions and does not adjudicate between them, because no pan-Orthodox council has.