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Church Attractions In Poltava Oblast

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Poltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava. Most of its territory is part of the historic Cossack Hetmanate . Population: 1,438,948 Two other important cities there are Horishni Plavni and Kremenchuk.
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  • 4. Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kremenchuk
    The Ukrainian Orthodox Church , commonly referred to as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is one of the three major Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical bodies in modern Ukraine. It is a constituent part of the Russian Orthodox Church ; however, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the senior-most of all the Orthodox Churches and the mother church for the historical Russian Church, disputes the legality of the ROC's ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Ukraine, which in the modern era dates back to 1686. The current statute of the ROC defines it as a self-governing [church] with the rights of wide autonomy. The current status of the UOC within the Moscow Patriarchate means that it enjoys full administrative independence from the ROC's Holy Synod, whereas the Primate of the UOC is the...
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  • 8. Mhar Transfiguration Monastery Mhar
    The Mhar Monastery is a male monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the bank of the Sula River near Lubny . It was founded in 1619 by Isaia Kopynsky on the money of Princess Regina Wiśniowiecka as a bratstvo designed to become a bulwark of Orthodoxy in the eastern part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.The Ukrainian Baroque katholikon was erected in the 1680s with the help of a generous grant from Hetmans Ivan Samoylovych and Ivan Mazepa. The seven-domed church with six piers was designed by a German architect who had worked on the Trinity Cathedral in Chernihiv. The number of domes was reduced to five after the central cupola had collapsed in 1728. A free-standing Neoclassical bell tower was started in 1785 but was not completed until 60 years later.The monastery grounds con...
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