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The purpose of the publication is to use historical materials that previously fell out of the field of view of researchers to consider the history of the relationship between the Primate of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of Kyiv and Galicia, and the head of the Ukrainian State, Hetman Pavel Skoropadsky. The mythology established in Ukrainian historiography about the hostility of Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) to the Ukrainian idea and Ukrainian statehood and, as a consequence, the confrontation of the Metropolitan with Hetman P. Skoropadsky is erroneous. From the first days of heading the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Metropolitan Anthony took the position of active and sincere support for the Hetman’s policy on the issue of Ukrainian state building. From being initially suspicious, their relationship gradually grew into respectful and trusting, since Metropolitan Anthony was a convinced ideological supporter and assistant to the Hetman in his sovereign policy. The overthrow of the Hetmanate by the united forces of Ukrainian socialists, anarchists and Russian Bolsheviks led to the fall of the Ukrainian State and steered the historical course of church and state events in a different direction, plunging Ukraine into the chaos of civil war and Soviet occupation, terminating the development of power building in Ukraine for several decades and changing the history of the Ukrainian Church.
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https://doi.org/10.36124/rt.2023.21