The Road to Autocephaly: Review of Denysenko, The Orthodox Church in Ukraine

by Michael Plekon

With the granting of a tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of
Ukraine (OCU) on January 6, 2019, by Patriarch Bartholomew I and the synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the pursuit of a century was finally attained: an authentic local church in Ukraine, truly self-determining and no longer a dependency of another church. Soon after, however, the Moscow Patriarchate halted eucharistic communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and there has been no abating of attacks back and forth since.

Michael Plekon

The Very Rev. Michael Plekon is an emeritus professor of sociology and religious studies at the City University of New York–Baruch College. He has been a Carmelite friar and a priest in both the Western and Eastern church. He is a prolific writer and editor, and  author of works on Kierkegaard, Thomas Merton, the Russian emigre theologians in Paris between the wars as well as contemporary persons of faith. 

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