The role of Metropolitan Vasily lipkivsky in the preparation and holding of the all-Ukrainian Church Council in 1921

The deployment of the Ukrainian national-political movement in 1917-1922 prompted the conscious part of the Ukrainian Orthodox clergy and the flock to put on the agenda the requirements for the revival of the national foundations of Church life. The example of The Georgian Orthodox Church, which declared itself Autocephalous, served as a clear reference point. So, at this time the struggle for the spiritual liberation of Ukrainians, for the creation of a single local Ukrainian Orthodox Church. But the Russian Orthodox Church and the Bolshevik authorities opposed the approval of the UAOC. And in this difficult struggle there has been a figure of Vasily lipkivsky-pastor, organizer and leader of the Ukrainian national Church movement of the era of the Executed Renaissance, Metropolitan of The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of the 1920s. However, in modern Ukraine the name of Vasily lipkivsky is not known to the General public of the Orthodox Church. The purpose of this article is to highlight the key moment of his service to the Ukrainian people in 1917-1921.