More than one-third (34 percent) of Ukrainians identify with the newly created independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), a poll found conducted by the Kyiv-based Razumkov Center think tank and published on February 3.
RFE/RL: One-third of Ukrainians say they belong to church independent of Moscow
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on Jan. 6, 2019, shows Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (L) and Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church (R), during the official ceremony of "Tomos" decree of autocephaly handing at the Patriarchal Church of St George in Istanbul.
