History of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 1. The birth of Christianity in Ukrainian lands 2. Spread of the Christian Faith before Volodymyr 9th–10th centuries 3. Baptism of Rus’-Ukraine 988 4. Union of Brest 1596 5. Restoration of the Galician Metropolitanate 1808 6. Metropolitan Sheptytsky 1865–1944 7. Pseudo-council and liquidation 1946 8. Patriarch Yosyf Slipy 1892–1984 9. The Church in the underground 1946–1989 10. Revival of the Church 1989 11. Return to Kyiv 2005 12. The Church today