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The article analyzes the work of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky devoted to the problem of unification of Ukrainian churches. The Metropolitan’s view on the issues of separation caused by foreign influences on historical, cultural and mental development of the Ukrainian people is being researched. It turns out that A.Sheptytsky put great hopes in the reunification of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, which, being combined dogmatically with the West and ritually with the East, was objectively intended to work. Practical activity of A.

Jn the basis of scientific, historical, philosophical and religious sources in the article analyzed the role and place of the Christian religion in the life and wod of the brilliant poet Taras Shevchenko, rating of philosopher of religion as an important factor in the formation of high morals and spirituality as an individual and all-people.

In the article the features of canonical and legal interpretation of the concept “Church”. The basic approaches dogmatic understanding of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ, the Divine institution. We study two stages of institution of the Church: old Testament and new Testament.