Religious Organizations in Ukraine as of 1 January, 2002
Statistics supplied by the National Committee on Religious Matters of Ukraine
Institutions
Name of Church
or Religious Denomination
| Communities
(*see note 1)
| Pastoral Ministers
| Worship Buildings
| Monasteries
Missions
| Educational Institutions (*see note 2)
| Sunday Schools | Ukrainian Orthodox Church
(of the Moscow Patriarchate) | 9423 / 92 | 7995
of which 9 are foreign citizens | 8305
930 being built | 131
3727 Monks and Nuns
3 Missions | 15
1805 / 2360 Students | 3076 | Ukrainian Orthodox Church
of the Kievan Patriarchate | 3010 / 40 | 2443
of which 1 is a foreign citizen | 2115
267 being built | 28
131 Monks and Nuns
22 Missions | 15
1177 / 404 Students | 823 | Ukrainian Autocephalous
Orthodox Church
| 1052 / 3 | 653 | 697
97 being built | 3
6 Missions | 8
205 / 80 Students | 244 | Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Church
| 3289 / 47 | 1944
of which 53 are foreign citizens | 2665
305 being built | 86
1123 Monks and Nuns
9 Missions | 13
1166 / 40 Students | 735 | | Roman Catholic Church | 818 / 9 | 450
of which 285 are foreign citizens | 751
57 being built | 66
436 Monks and Nuns
31Missions | 6
322 / 171 Students | 471 | Armenian Apostolic Church
| 17 / 1 | 9
of which 3 are foreign citizens | 12
4 being built | | | 1 | Old Believers
| 61 / 12 | 39
of which 5 are foreign citizens | 56
3 being built | 2
9 Monks | | 9 | Baptist Union
| 2113 / 81 | 2851
of which 18 are foreign citizens | 1474
166 being built | 74 Missions | 42
3849 / 2078 Students | 1148 | Other Baptists
| 269 / 39 | 402
of which 28 are foreign citizens | 125
13 being built | 16 Missions | 3
88 / 112 Students | 141 | Pentecostal Union
| 1131 / 122 | 1737
of which 11 are foreign citizens | 787
107 being built | 47 Missions | 13
691/59 Students | 741 | Other Pentecostals
| 466 / 114 | 678
of which 17 are foreign citizens | 165
13 being built | 13 Missions | 5
365 / 150 Students | 268 | Full Gospel Church (Charismatics)
| 286 / 5 | 358
of which 6 are foreign citizens | 65
1 being built | 5 Missions | 3
236 / 560 Students | 121 | Other Charismatics
| 355 / 56 | 575
of which 4 are foreign citizens | 125
4 being built | 7 Missions | 4
722 / 2 Students | 203 | 7th Day Adventists
| 857 / 49 | 1145
of which 6 are foreign citizens | 501
105 being built | 2 Missions | 3
180 / 563 Students | 537 | Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church
| 104 / 1 | 58
of which 4 are foreign citizens | 97 | | | 80 | Lutherans
| 67 / 1 | 51
of which 10 are foreign citizens | 30
2 being built | | 1
20 Students | 26 | Other Protestant Communities and Centers
| 211 / 42 | 278
of which 44 are foreign citizens | 37
3 being built | 3 Missions | 3
190 / 15 Students | 56 | Mormons
| 32 / 27 | 263
of which 95 are foreign citizens | 19
5 being built | | | 39 | Jehovah’s Witnesses
| 488 / 299 | 1752
of which 72 are foreign citizens | 255
31being built | | | 146 | Jewish Communities
| 221 / 1 | 110
of which 46 are foreign citizens | 100
1 being built | 2 Missions | 5
88 Students | 78 | Moslems
| 386 / 30 | 404
of which 25 are foreign citizens | 166
18 being built | | 5
383 / 80 Students | 64 | Society of Krishna Consciousness
| 31 / 9 | 39 | 14
2 being built | | 1
47 Students | 8 | Other Eastern Religions
| 46 / 21 | 58 | 17
1 being built | 1
12 Monks | | 2 | Pagan Communities
| 64 / 4 | 63 | 5 | | 1
20 Students | 11 | Other Faiths
| 122 / 25 | 154
of which 10 are foreign citizens | 51
1 being built | 2 Missions | 1
- / 26 Students | 29 | Total in Ukraine
| 24919 / 1130 | 24509
of which 752 are foreign citizens | 18634
2136 being built | 317
5438 Monks and Nuns
242 Missions | 147
11554 / 7000
Students | 9057 |
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Note 1: The first figure denotes communities whose statutes are fully registered according to legal requirements; the second figure denotes communities which operate withoutregistration, which is allowed according to Ukrainian legislation.
Note 2: The first figure denotes the number of educational establishments; the second figure thenumber of full-time students; the third figure the number of part-time (correspondence) students.
Journal Liudyna i Svit, Kyiv, January 2002, p. 35-8.
See statistic on Religious Organizations in Ukraine as of 1 January, 2001
