The Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP; (UPTs-KP)) is an Orthodox church in Ukraine which declared its revival following its liquidation by the Honorary Patriarch Filaret, who decided to go into schism with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The legal status of the church is debatable. On 15 December 2018, bishops and delegates from three major branches of Orthodoxy in Ukraine (the UOC-KP, the UAOC and some members of the UOC-MP) unified at a council. During the council, Metropolitan Epiphanius I (a former bishop of the Kyiv Patriarchate) was elected Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine and became the primate of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine.