 In 1990 after the celebration of the 1000-anniversary of Baptism of Rus in Ukraine, the new movement for rebirth of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church began.It was initiated by Metropolitan Jonh (Bodnarchuk), and in the central Ukraine, in April 1990 the rebirth of the UAOC was initiated by archpriest Oleh Koulik, who organized about 200 religious communities of the UAOC being the Metropolitan administrator for Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsa and Zhytomyr regions.In 1990, on June 5–6, the All-Ukrainian Orthodox Council was held in Kiev where more than 700 delegates from the whole Ukraine took part, among them there were 7 bishops and more than 200 priests.