The Orthodox Church of Ukraine originated from the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources consistently trace the Orthodox Church of Ukraine's origin to the 2018 Unification Council and to autocephaly granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2019, not to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The passage's own claim that it 'came from the Patriarchate of Jerusalem' is contradicted by this record, and the extraction faithfully reflects the post's wording.
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… Oh yeah, that's certainly an expulsion, um, but you had a number of power centers, not just the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, the unions, even the Vatican to some extent, the Cossacks, at least while they were unified, and this Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which did exist, which came from the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, um, and maybe the Patriarch of Constantinople. Maybe another one. By Constantinople at the time was under the Turks and couldn't be of much assistance. …
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Contradicts. Reuters and Britannica report that Ukraine secured its independent church from the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, and that Bartholomew I formally recognized the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in January 2019.[1][2]
Contradicts. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine was created at the December 2018 Unification Council, which merged the Kyiv Patriarchate, the UAOC and parts of the Moscow-aligned UOC, with delegations from the Patriarchate of Constantinople.[3][4][5]
Contradicts. The academic sources describe the 2018–2019 'Final Schism' as producing the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, with its origins traced to Byzantium and the Ecumenical Patriarchate rather than Jerusalem.[6][7]
Context. Jerusalem appears in the historical record only indirectly, such as Patriarch Theophanes of Jerusalem restoring the Kyiv metropolia's episcopate in 1620, which predates the modern OCU by centuries and does not establish its origin.[3]
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 6 not rated
- 1Traitors or Russian agents? Clergy caught in Ukraine church ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Eastern Orthodoxy | Definition, Origin, History, & Factsbritannica.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Orthodox Church of Ukrainewrldrels.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 4Orthodox Churches Worldwide - ORTHODOX.NEWSorthodox.news · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5Orthodox Church of Ukraine - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6Orthodoxy and autocephaly in Ukraine: editor's introductiontandfonline.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 7All Roads Lead to New Rome: The Canonical Origins and Status of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Ukraine | Ecclesiastical Law Journal | Cambridge Corecambridge.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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