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On October 8, 1942 Archbishop Nikanor and Bishop Mstyslav (now Patriarch) of the UAOC and Metropolitan Oleksiy (Hromadsky) of the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church entered into an Act of Union at the Pochaev Lavra uniting these two church hierarchies. German occupation authorities and pro-Russian hierarchs of the Autonomous Church forced Metropolitan Oleksiy to remove his signature. Metropolitan Oleksiy was executed in Volynia on May 7May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). There are 238 days remaining. Events 558 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian immediately orders the dome rebuilt. 1274 In France the Secon, 19431943 is the common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 1.

The Russian Orthodox Church regained its general monopoly after World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough in the Ukrainian SSRCOA ( In Detail) (In Detail) State motto: , ! Official language None. According to the constitution, all languages were equal. However, Russian was supposed to be the language of international communication, thus putting Ukrainian at a disadvantage. Capit. Most of the other churches were forced out as the Soviet government only recognized the Moscow Patriarchate, revived at the time of the Russian RevolutionThe phrase Russian Revolution can refer to two specific events in the history of Imperial Russia: The Russian Revolution of 1905 which was a series of riots and anti-government violence against Czar Nicholas II, leading to the creation of the Duma, but re, as the only legitimate church in most of the Soviet Union. Many accused it of being a puppetA puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller of the Communist Party. After the suspicious death of Tikhon of MoscowSaint Tikhon of Moscow ( January 19, 1865 March 25, 1925), born Vasily Ivanovich Belavin, was the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union. From 1878 to 1883, Vasily studied at the Pskov Theological Seminary. these autocephalic churches sought to remain independent; something that Moscow tolerated until after World War Two when many Ukrainian Orthodox clergy not affiliated with Moscow fled to Germany or the United States. The UAOC in Ukraine was then liquidated by the Soviets with the assistance of the Patriarchate of Moscow. Any UAOC hierarchs or clergy who remained in Ukraine and refused to join the Russian Church were executed or sent to concentration camps. A few years later the same thing happened to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Western Ukraine and Transcarpathia.