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 563
UOC (MP) 512
UOC KP 25
UAOC 12
Old Believers 3
Others 11
|
7
|
14
|
273 / 38
|
414 / 20
(* see
note 3)
|
|
Vinnytsia
|
Total 1046 / 59
UOC (MP) 803 / 52
UOC KP 178
UAOC 53
Old Believers 9 / 4
Others 3 / 3
|
14
|
126
|
334 / 117
|
50 / 2
|
|
Volyn
|
Total 810 / 4
UOC (MP) 547 / 1
UOC KP 248 / 3
UAOC 15
|
14
|
28
|
359 / 32
|
9 / 4
|
|
Dnipropetrovsk
|
Total 569 / 31
UOC (MP) 483
UOC KP 75 / 31
UAOC 8
Old Believers 2
Others 1
|
5
|
5
|
327 / 8
|
35
|
|
Donetsk
|
Total 556
UOC (MP) 469
UOC KP 80
UAOC 3
Old Believers 1
Others 3
|
26
|
8 / 1
|
615 / 27
|
76 / 5
|
|
Zhytomyr
|
Total 736
UOC (MP) 557
UOC KP 169
UAOC 3
Old Believers 6
Others 1
|
5
|
134
|
276 / 14
|
26
|
|
Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia)
|
Total 594 / 2
UOC (MP) 574
UOC KP 18 / 2
UAOC 1
Old Believers 1
|
344 / 10
|
91 / 7
|
407 / 150
|
35 / 31
|
|
Zaporizhzhia
|
Total 400 / 15
UOC (MP) 289 / 15
UOC KP 89
UAOC 7
Old Believers 1
Others 14
|
3
|
12
|
306 / 14
|
43 / 18
|
|
Ivano-Frankivsk
|
Total 447
UOC (MP) 26
UOC KP 273
UAOC 148
|
660
|
35
|
116
|
4
|
|
Kyiv
(region)
|
Total 866
UOC (MP) 562
UOC KP 288
UAOC 14
Old Believers 1
Others 1
|
8
|
21
|
438
|
20
|
|
Kirovohrad
|
Total 257
UOC (MP) 195
UOC KP 43
UAOC 15
Old Believers 4
|
–
|
2
|
211 / 23
|
13 / 2
|
|
Luhansk
|
Total 350
UOC (MP) 321
UOC KP 18
UAOC 5
Old Believers 1
Others 5
|
2
|
1
|
255 / 3
|
41
|
|
Lviv
|
Total 842 / 4
UOC (MP) 61 / 1
UOC KP 413 / 1
UAOC 366 / 2
Others 2
|
1507 / 2
|
140 / 1
|
269 / 53
|
27
|
|
Mykolayiv
|
Total 377
UOC (MP) 250
UOC KP 116
UAOC 9
Others 2
|
5
|
9
|
189 / 13
|
17 / 1
|
|
Odessa
|
Total 607 / 4
UOC (MP) 495
UOC KP 78
UAOC 4
Old Believers 13 / 4
Others 17
|
10
|
17
|
362 / 25
|
38 / 1
|
|
Poltava
|
Total 536 / 1
UOC (MP) 394
UOC KP 127
UAOC 12
Others 3 / 1
|
4
|
6
|
261 / 2
|
28
|
|
Rivne
|
Total 885 / 6
??? (??) 583 / 3
UOC KP 280 / 3
UAOC 21
Others 1
|
3
|
17
|
410 / 17
|
19
|
|
Sumy
|
Total 406
UOC (MP) 341
UOC KP 63
Others 2
|
2
|
5
|
166 / 5
|
12 / 2
|
|
Ternopil
|
Total 621
UOC (MP) 121
UOC KP 210
UAOC 290
|
777
|
86
|
168
|
4
|
|
Kharkiv
|
Total 289 / 1
UOC (MP) 254
UOC KP 15
UAOC 16
Old Believers 3 / 1
Others 1
|
5
|
14
|
258 / 51
|
38 / 9
|
|
Kherson
|
Total 406
UOC (MP) 314
UOC KP 55
UAOC 37
|
7
|
14
|
225 / 8
|
44
|
|
Khmelnytsky
|
Total 1110
UOC (MP) 858
UOC KP 177
UAOC 69
Old Believers 4
Others 2
|
27
|
142
|
305
|
24
|
|
Cherkasy
|
Total 623
UOC (MP) 470
UOC KP 101
UAOC 51
Old Believers 1
|
1
|
7
|
335
|
34
|
|
Chernivtsi
|
Total 551 / 4
UOC (MP) 404 / 2
UOC KP 136 / 2
Old Believers 10
Others 1
|
21
|
32
|
413 / 95
|
17 / 12
|
|
Chernihiv
|
Total 569 / 1
UOC (MP) 485
UOC KP 81
Old Believers 2 / 1
Others 1
|
2
|
4
|
154 / 29
|
14
|
|
City of Kyiv
|
Total 328 / 1
UOC (MP) 186
UOC KP 109 / 1
UAOC 29
Old Believers 2
Others 2
|
9
|
21
|
309 / 42
|
124 / 20
|
|
Total in Ukraine
|
15 344 / 128
|
3468 / 12
|
991 / 9
|
7741 / 766
|
1206 / 127
|
|
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 349 Moslem communities with statutes registered included here; and another 20 communities operating without registered statutes
Journal Liudyna i Svit, Kyiv, January 2004, p. 35-38.
