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 459
UOC (MP) 422
UOC KP 18
UAOC 2
Old Believers 1
Others 11
|
4
|
13
|
229 / 28
|
348 / 30
(* see
note 3)
|
|
Vinnytsia
|
Total 936 / 55
UOC (MP) 749 / 52
UOC KP 127
UAOC 51
Old Believers 9 / 3
|
13
|
122
|
275 / 104
|
45 / 6
|
|
Volyn
|
Total 761
UOC (MP) 518
UOC KP 228
UAOC 15
|
11
|
26
|
314 / 17
|
6 / –
|
|
Dnipropetrovsk
|
Total 473 / 31
UOC (MP) 408
UOC KP 55 / 31
UAOC 8
Old Believers 1
Others 1
|
4 / 1
|
5
|
267 / 8
|
28
|
|
Donetsk
|
Total 499 / 2
UOC (MP) 417 / 2
UOC KP 76
UAOC 3
Old Believers 2
Others 1
|
21 / 1
|
5
|
545 / 76
|
65 / 10
|
|
Zhytomyr
|
Total 694 / 3
UOC (MP) 534 / 1
UOC KP 152
UAOC 3
Old Believers 5 / 2
|
5 / 1
|
128
|
237 / 23
|
20
|
|
Zakarpattіa (Transcarpathia)
|
Total 557 / 22
UOC (MP) 541 / 21
UOC KP 14 / 1
UAOC 1
Old Believers 1
|
313 / 3
|
90 / 7
|
380 / 185
|
17 / 5
|
|
Zaporizhzhia
|
Total 346 / 4
UOC (MP) 253 / 4
UOC KP 75
UAOC 8
Old Believers 2
Others 8
|
3
|
10
|
258 / 34
|
29 / 21
|
|
Ivano-Frankivsk
|
Total 455
UOC (MP) 25
UOC KP 324
UAOC 106
|
687
|
30
|
93
|
4
|
|
Kyiv
(region)
|
Total 791
UOC (MP) 514
UOC KP 263
UAOC 12
Old Believers 1
Others 1
|
8
|
21
|
370
|
12
|
|
Kirovohrad
|
Total 227 / 2
UOC (MP) 185
UOC KP 25 / 1
UAOC 13 / 1
Old Believers 4
|
–
|
1 / 1
|
175 / 36
|
10 / 1
|
|
Luhansk
|
Total 321
UOC (MP) 297
UOC KP 15
UAOC 3
Old Believers 1
Others 5
|
2
|
1
|
218 / 2
|
33
|
|
Lviv
|
Total 813 / 4
UOC (MP) 59 / 1
UOC KP 394 / 2
UAOC 359 / 1
Others 1
|
1493 / 41
|
137 / 1
|
244 / 41
|
21
|
|
Mykolayiv
|
Total 314
UOC (MP) 208
UOC KP 98
UAOC 7
Others 1
|
5
|
7
|
155
|
17
|
|
Odessa
|
Total 542 / 2
UOC (MP) 455
UOC KP 59
UAOC 3
Old Believers 13 / 2
Others 12
|
9
|
15
|
310 / 32
|
34 / 1
|
|
Poltava
|
Total 468 / 2
UOC (MP) 361
UOC KP 95
UAOC 10
Old Believers 2 / 1
Others – / 1
|
2
|
4
|
197 / 4
|
24 / 1
|
|
Rivne
|
Total 820 / 6
УПЦ (МП 542 / 3
UOC KP 260 / 3
UAOC 18
|
3
|
17
|
367 / 16
|
12
|
|
Sumy
|
Total 373
UOC (MP) 320
UOC KP 51
Others 2
|
2
|
5
|
147 / 7
|
10 / 2
|
|
Ternopil
|
Total 613
UOC (MP) 119
UOC KP 206
UAOC 288
|
772
|
81
|
155
|
4
|
|
Kharkiv
|
Total 277 / 1
UOC (MP) 244
UOC KP 15
UAOC 14
Old Believers 3 / 1
Others 1
|
5
|
10
|
210 / 40
|
28 / 7
|
|
Kherson
|
Total 329
UOC (MP) 263
UOC KP 44
UAOC 22
|
7
|
14
|
173 / 5
|
36 / 2
|
|
Khmelnytsky
|
Total 1026
UOC (MP) 809
UOC KP 147
UAOC 65
Old Believers 4
Others 1
|
18
|
132
|
279
|
21
|
|
Cherkasy
|
Total 533
UOC (MP) 406
UOC KP 80
UAOC 46
Old Believers 1
|
1
|
7
|
280 / 6
|
28
|
|
Chernivtsi
|
Total 531 / 14
UOC (MP) 397 / 8
UOC KP 125 / 2
UAOC – / 1
Old Believers 9 / 3
|
18
|
29
|
381 / 75
|
15 / 12
|
|
Chernihiv
|
Total 514
UOC (MP) 442
UOC KP 69
UAOC 2
Others 1
|
2
|
2
|
132 / 18
|
10
|
|
City of Kyiv
|
Total 281
UOC (MP) 152
UOC KP 101
UAOC 22
Old Believers 2
Others 4
|
8
|
20
|
307 / 53
|
66 / 18
|
|
Total in Ukraine
|
13953 / 148
|
3416 / 47
|
932 / 9
|
6698 / 810
|
934 / 116
|
|
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 276 Moslem communities with statutes registered included here; and another 29 communities operating without registered statutes
Journal Liudyna i Svit, Kyiv, January 2002
