Number of Religious Organizations as of 1 January, 2003 broken down according to regions of Ukraine
Statistics supplied by the National Committee on Religious Matters of Ukraine
(*see note 1)
Denominations
Regions |
Orthodox
(*see note 2)
|
Greek Catholic
|
Roman Catholic
|
Protestants
|
Others
|
|
Crimea
(Autonomous Republic)
|
Total 491
UOC (MP) 445
UOC KP 20
UAOC 12
Old Believers 3
Others 11
|
6
|
13
|
257 /
29
|
347 /
30
(* see
note 3)
|
|
Vinnytsia
|
Total 1011 / 54
UOC (MP) 784 / 51
UOC KP 166
UAOC 52
Old Believers 9 / 3
|
14
|
124
|
311 /
113
|
49 /
5
|
|
Volyn
|
Total 783
UOC (MP) 533
UOC KP 235
UAOC 15
|
14
|
26
|
339 /
16
|
6 / 1
|
|
Dnipropetrovsk
|
Total 536 / 29
UOC (MP) 455
UOC KP 70 / 29
UAOC 8
Old Believers 2
Others 1
|
4 / 1
|
5
|
306 /
8
|
29
|
|
Donetsk
|
Total 541
UOC (MP) 455
UOC KP 80
UAOC 3
Old Believers 2
Others 1
|
23 /
1
|
5
|
581 /
18
|
64 /
6
|
|
Zhytomyr
|
Total 719 / 4
UOC (MP) 549 / 1
UOC KP 162 / 1
UAOC 3
Old Believers 5 / 2
|
5 / 1
|
132
|
206 /
8
|
20
|
|
Zakarpatt³a (Transcarpathia)
|
Total 571 / 12
UOC (MP) 553 / 12
UOC KP 16
UAOC 1
Old Believers 1
|
326 / 5 /
3
|
91 /
7
|
406 /
167
|
18 /
3
|
|
Zaporizhzhia
|
Total 379
UOC (MP) 275
UOC KP 86
UAOC 7
Old Believers 2
Others 9
|
3
|
10
|
274 /
35
|
30 /
15
|
|
Ivano-Frankivsk
|
Total 436
UOC (MP) 25
UOC KP 285
UAOC 126
|
655
|
34
|
|
3
|
|
Kyiv
(region)
|
Total 824
UOC (MP) 535
UOC KP 274
UAOC 14
Old Believers 1
|
8
|
21
|
398
|
14
|
|
Kirovohrad
|
Total 240
UOC (MP) 188
UOC KP 34
UAOC 14
Old Believers 4
|
–
|
2
|
194 /
18
|
10 /
1
|
|
Luhansk
|
Total 340
UOC (MP) 315
UOC KP 15
UAOC 4
Old Believers 1
Others 5
|
2
|
1
|
246 /
2
|
33
|
|
Lviv
|
Total 825 / 7
UOC (MP) 62 / 1
UOC KP 401 / 3
UAOC 361 / 2
Others 1 / 1
|
1502
/ 38
|
140
|
262 /
39
|
19
|
|
Mykolayiv
|
Total 345
UOC (MP) 228
UOC KP 108
UAOC 8
Others 1
|
5
|
9
|
177
|
16
|
|
Odessa
|
Total 582 / 2
UOC (MP) 481
UOC KP 781
UAOC 3
Old Believers 13 / 2
Others 14
|
9
|
16
|
326 /
29
|
33 /
1
|
|
Poltava
|
Total 509 / 2
UOC (MP) 388
UOC KP 108
UAOC 11
Old Believers 2 / 1
Others – / 1
|
3
|
5
|
228 /
4
|
23 /
1
|
|
Rivne
|
Total 857 / 8
ÓÏÖ (ÌÏ 564 / 5
UOC KP 272 / 3
UAOC 21
|
3
|
17
|
393 /
12
|
11
|
|
Sumy
|
Total 392
UOC (MP) 331
UOC KP 59
Others 2
|
2
|
5
|
157 /
3
|
12 /
1
|
|
Ternopil
|
Total 620
UOC (MP) 121
UOC KP 210
UAOC 289
|
774
|
82
|
156
|
4
|
|
Kharkiv
|
Total 286 / 1
UOC (MP) 252
UOC KP 15
UAOC 15
Old Believers 3 / 1
Others 1
|
5
|
12
|
238 /
64
|
33 /
7
|
|
Kherson
|
Total 363
UOC (MP) 286
UOC KP 49
UAOC 28
|
7
|
14
|
193 /
4
|
37 /
2
|
|
Khmelnytsky
|
Total 1066
UOC (MP) 833
UOC KP 163
UAOC 65
Old Believers 4
Others 1
|
21
|
139
|
294
|
24
|
|
Cherkasy
|
Total 582
UOC (MP) 443
UOC KP 86
UAOC 52
Old Believers 1
|
1
|
7
|
313
|
28
|
|
Chernivtsi
|
Total 544 / 12
UOC (MP) 404 / 4
UOC KP 130 / 5
UAOC – / 1
Old Believers 10 / 2
|
21
|
32
|
391 /
105
|
17 /
8
|
|
Chernihiv
|
Total 544 / 3
UOC (MP) 469 / 2
UOC KP 73
UAOC 2 / 1
Others 1
|
2
|
3
|
140 /
25
|
10
|
|
City of Kyiv
|
Total 303 / 6
UOC (MP) 167 / 3
UOC KP 107 / 2
UAOC 24
Old Believers 2
Others 3 / 1
|
9
|
20
|
331 /
62
|
68 /
2
|
|
Total in Ukraine
|
14689
/ 140
|
3424
/ 45
|
965 /
7
|
7227
/ 791
|
958 /
83
|
|
Note 1: The first figure denotes communities whose statutes are fully registered
according to legal requirements; the second figure denotes communities which
operate without registration, which is allowed according to Ukrainian legislation.
Note 2: In addition to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (of the Moscow Patriarchate),
the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous
Orthodox Church, the following communities are also active in Ukraine: the Free
Russian Orthodox Church (outside of Russia), the Russian True Orthodox Church,
Greek communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and a few other independent
Orthodox communities. Under the heading “Orthodox” these are included under
“Other.”
UOC (MP): Ukrainian Orthodox Church (of the Moscow Patriarchate)
UOC KP: Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate
UAOC: Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
Note 3: There are 329 Moslem communities with statutes registered included here; and another 29 communities operating without registered statutes
Journal Liudyna i Svit, Kyiv, January 2003
