Ma ka lā 8 o Pepeluali, ua hoʻopaʻa inoa ke Kuhina o ka Lunakanawai o Lithuania i kahi hale hoʻomana hou - he exarchate, e hoʻokau ʻia ma lalo o ka Patriarchate o Constantinople. No laila, ʻelua mau hale pule Orthodox e ʻike ʻia ma ka ʻāina: ʻo kekahi no ka Ecumenical Patriarchate a me ka diocese o ka Moscow Patriarchate ma Lithuania.
He ʻumi kāhuna pule ka hui hoʻomana hou a hoʻolālā e hoʻokumu i nā hui hoʻomalu i ka wā e hiki mai ana. Ke alakaʻiʻia nei e ke kahuna Estonian Justinus Kiviloo, nāna i mālama i kānaʻoihana mua ma Lithuania i ka hoʻomakaʻana o Ianuali 2024. ʻO nā kahuna i koe i lawelawe mua ma ka Russian Orthodox Church (ROC):ʻeono ma Lithuania,ʻelua ma Belarus a hoʻokahi ma Rusia .
ʻO ke kākoʻo o Patriarch Kirill i ke kaua o ka Russian Federation e kūʻē iā Ukraine ke kumu o ka hana ʻana o ka exarchate hou. ʻO kēia kūlana i alakaʻi i kahi hakakā ma waena o ʻeiwa mau kahuna pule a me ke alakaʻi ʻana o ka Ekalesia Orthodox Lūkini. I ka makahiki 2022, ua wehe ʻo Vilnius a me Lithuania Metropolitan Innocent i ʻelima o lākou mai ka ʻoihana, a ua hoʻihoʻi ʻo Patriarch Bartholomew iā lākou a ʻae iā lākou ma lalo o kāna mana. Ma Malaki 2023, kipa ʻo Patriarch Bartholomew iā Vilnius a kau inoa i kahi ʻaelike me ke aupuni Lithuanian e hoʻokumu i ka Exarchate of the Patriarchate of Constantinople ma ka ʻāina.
Ua pane mālie ka Diocese o ka ROC ma Lithuania i ke ʻano o ka hale pule hou. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Metropolitan Innocent e pono e ʻae ʻia ke kaiāulu hoʻomana hou he "ʻoiaʻiʻo o ko mākou manawa".
Ua ʻike ka nūhou kūloko mai ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka hoʻouka kaua piha ʻana o Rūsia iā Ukraine, ua ʻimi ka diocese ROC ma Lithuania i ke kūʻokoʻa nui aʻe mai ka Moscow Patriarchate.
He 105,000 ka poʻe manaʻoʻiʻo Orthodox ma Lithuania, ʻo ka hapa nui o lākou he ʻōlelo Lūkini. Ua manaʻo ʻia ka poʻe Kalikiano Orthodox kekahi o nā kaiāulu hoʻomana kahiko ʻeiwa ma ka ʻāina.
