The activity of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Transnistria in 1991–1995 (based on the materials of the periodical press)

Abstract

With the aggravation of interethnic relations in Moldova in the early 1990s, the The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) opened and registered several parishes in the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. The Pridnestrovian newspapers Dnestrovskaya Pravda, Dniester, and Trudovoy Tiraspol regulary published about the UAOC activities in the first half of the 1990s. The journalism included reports, speeches by representatives of the UAOC clergy, appeals by the UAOC leadership to the congregation and the like, which allows characterizing such aspects of the UAOC activities in Pridnestrovie as organizations of parishes in the province, the composition of the clergy, the political preferences of the Pridnestrovian UAOC clergy, the relations of Pridnestrovian congregation to the UAOC clergy and the clergy of Moldova, the activities of the UAOC parish priests during the armed confrontation in Pridnestrovie and after its end, the liquidation of the UAOC structures in Pridnestrovie.