Shkriblyak M. Church-jurisdictional transformation and formation modernidentity of Kyivan Christianity in the context of political and ideological strategies of ethnic-stateof self-determination Rus-Ukraine in the XVI - XVII centuries

The thesis presents a detailed historiosophical analysis of major events and phenomena that emphasize major social and historical background and identify leading trends of social and religious, hierarchic and structural transformations in Kyiv Metropolia in early modern era. They certainly have left their impression on the formation and development of church and religious traditions in Ukraine, the permanency of which potentiates the atmosphere of ideological dogmatic and canonical contradictions between the Orthodox and Greek Catholics nowadays as well. The consequences of joining of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Moscow Patriarchate structures and the annexation of its canonical territory in the context of contemporary social and religious reforms and state processes in Ukraine have been reasoned.