Zaremba Е. The inter-Orthodox conflict in Ukraine: origins, course, perspectives of overcoming

The dissertation is devoted to the philosophical and religious analysis of the inter-Orthodox conflict in Ukraine as a complex phenomenon that emerged and arose as a result of socio-political contradictions in the life of the newest Ukraine, and the result of the actions of religious geopolitics, which formed the basis of the design and escalation of this conflict, the restoration of the unity of the Orthodox in Ukraine and the formation of a single local Orthodox Church here as a key issue in the developmen to the religious and church environment of the country and a full realization of its social and ideological functions. The essence of geopolitical strategies of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the Orthodox in Ukraine as the main obstacle on the way to solving intra-Orthodox contradictions in the country, the unification of Orthodox in Ukraine and the formation of a single Local Orthodox Church are revealed. The main stages of theindependence of the Orthodox in Ukraine in the church environment and Ukrainian society are highlighted and evaluated. As a result of the research it was revealed that various historiosophical, theological-canonical and mytho-narrative concepts concerning the status and prospects of the ancient Kyiv Metropol is are related to the struggle of the Constantinople and Moscow Patriarchates for in fluence in world Orthodoxy. Ukrainian theologians associate the prospects of Orthodoxy in Ukraine with the actualization of ideas about Kiev's Orthodoxy as a special civilizational phenomenon, different from Russian Orthodoxy. More and more theologians believe that it is necessary torelativize church structures, absolutizing the significance of a particular community or episcopacy. In the framework of this theology, the Church is a network of religious communities united by the very communication between communities (dioceses), rather than church structures.