@Deleted User Christianity in Ukraine came when Volodymyr the great baptized the Ruthenian Principality (Київська Русь) Christianity brought Ukrainians together as a people and had its ups and downs, Kyiv was considered the capital of Christianity in the East Slavs up until the late 1500s when the patriarch of Constantinople was bribed by the Tsar of Moscow to make Moscow the capital, which was the beginning of many Orthodox priests in Galicia, Volhynia, Podolia signing the Brest Union with Rome and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, founding the Ruthenian Uniate Church (the predecessor to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), during the partitions of Poland, Ukraine was divided between Austria and Russia, Austria upheld the Ruthenian Catholics in its Galicia and built the programs for the rise of the modern Ukrainian-Ruthenian National identity. in Russia, the Tsarist regime did many programs to revert the population to Orthodoxy, after WW1, the rise and fall of the Ukrainian National Republic and the founding of the USSR, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine was used by the Communists to make propaganda, while in Polish-owned Galicia-Volhynia, the UGCC was banned and Greek Catholics were forced into being Roman Catholics, which the locals of Galician Ukraine fought against. in Ukraine now there are three Churches, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the UOC and UGCC are pro-Ukraine sovereighty, the ROC is pro Russian and all that, and the ROC has schismed with Constantinople over the UOC's new existence.
