Saturday Historian: Arsen Zinchenko. Vasyl Lypkivskyi and the UAOC (08.02.2025)

Date
8 February 2025
Duration
56:04
Platform
YouTube
Participants
Arsen Zinchenko, Vitaliy Dribnytsya

An academic lecture-interview with historian Arsen Zinchenko about Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivskyi and the Ukrainian church movement of 1917–1937. It covers the proclamation of autocephaly, conciliar governance, and the Ukrainian language in worship, as well as GPU control, Lypkivskyi’s removal, and the Soviet destruction of the UAOC.

Key moments

  1. 03:33 Spiritual and ecclesiastical liberation as Lypkivskyi's guiding idea
  2. 04:03 April 1917: a church independent of the Russian Synod
  3. 05:25 October 1921: the UAOC founded and Lypkivskyi elected metropolitan
  4. 17:21 Elective clergy, the role of parishes, and conciliar governance
  5. 27:48 Early Ukrainian services: worshippers hear the Gospel in their own language
  6. 43:22 GPU archives: provocations, informants, and schisms inside the UAOC
  7. 45:22 The 1927 council under GPU control and Lypkivskyi's removal
  8. 48:36 The metropolitan's arrest and execution on 27 November 1937
  9. 50:59 The fabricated charge of a “fascist organization”
  10. 53:02 The UAOC archive collection and published council documents

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