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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 conviced ''Metropolitan Oleksiy'' to remove his signature. ''Metropolitan Oleksiy'' was executed in Volynia on May 7 , 1943 by UPA insurgents. The Russian Orthodox Church regained its general monopoly after World War II in the Ukrainian SSR . Most of the other churches were forced out as the Soviet government only recognized the Moscow Patriarchate, revived at the time of the Russian Revolution , as the only legitimate church in most of the Soviet Union. Many accused it of being a Puppet of the Communist Party . After the suspicious death of Tikhon Of Moscow 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 . REFERENCES Articles in Zerkalo Nedeli (Mirror Weekly), published in Kiev:
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