No church or religious community is impervious to events that introduce major societal changes. The Orthodox Church in Ukraine is no exception. Comprised of a complex community of people of diverse backgrounds, these people have been afflicted by a series of external events outside of their control spanning multiple generations. These events include the fall of the Russian empire and the revolution, the Holodomor of 1932–33, World War II, the decline and collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of an independent Ukrainian republic, the Euromaidan revolution, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
