Abstract:
The author examines the problem of the relationship between the authorities/state, the Church/ Churches and other confessional entities in Ukraine using the example of the formation of the legal framework in the conditions of the formation of a modern multi-confessional state and society. A separate novella is the reconstruction of the attitude of the Romanian administration and the Orthodox mission in Transnistria toward various religious and church trends, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church and the Greek Catholic Church, various sects in 1941-1944. The article provides the statistical data on the parishes, the number of sectarians and so on. On the basis of the comparative approach, the policy of the communist regime in the south of Ukraine is presented after the end of the period of Romanian administration. Against the background of the Christian Renaissance which took place in the zone of the Romanian interests on the territory of the Bug-Dniester interfluve, the Soviet government and its punitive and ideological bodies did everything to limit the existence of the “big” and “small” churches, to make them subordinate to an atheistic state and wipe the opposition churches off the confessional map of the country. The article contains a lot of historical and modern facts, various precise figures, personalities, which makes it possible to understand the past and to model the future of Ukraine as a multi-confessional country, with a tolerant and broad-minded spiritual individual and the society.
