Statistics supplied by the National Committee on Religious Matters of Ukraine
|
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)
|
8953 / 96
|
7509
of which 5 are foreign citizens
|
7755
840 being built
|
122
3579 Monks and Nuns
1 Mission
|
15
1995 / 2029
Students
|
2593
|
|
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
of the Kievan Patriarchate
|
2760 / 21
|
2182
|
1943
228 being built
|
22
113 Monks and Nuns
18 Missions
|
16
1411 / 388
Students
|
748
|
|
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
|
1013 / 2
|
628
|
697
101 being built
|
1
4 Monks
6 Missions
|
6
214 / 80
Students
|
217
|
|
Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Church
|
3268 / 49
|
1872
of which 52 are foreign citizens
|
2777
305 being built
|
79
1168 Monks and Nuns
7 Missions
|
12
1182 / 230
Students
|
690
|
|
Roman Catholic Church
|
798 / 9
|
431
of which 260 are foreign citizens
|
713
74 being built
|
50
309 Monks and Nuns
22 Missions
|
6
328 / 155
Students
|
405
|
|
Armenian Apostolic Church
|
15 / 1
|
8
of which 3 are foreign citizens
|
10
2 being built
|
|
|
|
|
Old Believers
|
55 / 12
|
37
of which 3 are foreign citizens
|
50
3 being built
|
2
5 Monks
|
|
2
|
|
Baptist Union
|
2033 / 101
|
2650
of which 13 are foreign citizens
|
1341
168 being built
|
66 Missions
|
33
1830 / 3745
Students
|
1082
|
|
Other Baptists
|
282 / 30
|
460
of which 28 are foreign citizens
|
149
8 being built
|
16 Missions
|
4
102 / 60
Students
|
132
|
|
Pentecostal Union
|
1066 / 130
|
1569
of which 17 are foreign citizens
|
713
96 being built
|
48 Missions
|
11
610 Students
|
674
|
|
Other Pentecostals
|
304 / 122
|
481
of which 6 are foreign citizens
|
97
11 being built
|
13 Missions
|
2
190 / 76
Students
|
102
|
|
Full Gospel Church (Charismatics)
|
278 / 5
|
358
of which 6 are foreign citizens
|
56
1 being built
|
5 Missions
|
3
593 / 400
Students
|
98
|
|
Other Charismatics
|
257 / 59
|
474
of which 2 are foreign citizens
|
119
7 being built
|
8 Missions
|
4
651 / 40
Students
|
122
|
|
7th Day Adventists
|
794 / 55
|
1057
of which 5 are foreign citizens
|
477
87 being built
|
1 Mission
|
3
- / 772
Students
|
425
|
|
Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church
|
104 / 1
|
55
of which 4 are foreign citizens
|
105
|
|
|
80
|
|
Lutherans
|
61
|
45
of which 7 are foreign citizens
|
22
2 being built
|
|
1
19 Students
|
22
|
|
Other Protestant Communities
and Centers
|
170 / 5
|
197
of which 41 are foreign citizens
|
29
|
1 Mission
|
2
85 Students
|
36
|
|
Mormons
|
31 / 26
|
260
of which 99 are foreign citizens
|
17
4 being built
|
|
|
34
|
|
Jehovah’s Witnesses
|
371 / 284
|
1640
of which 42 are foreign citizens
|
276
27 being built
|
|
|
74
|
|
Jewish Communities
|
194 / 4
|
92
of which 42 are foreign citizens
|
97
1 being built
|
2 Missions
|
3
55 Students
|
60
|
|
Moslems
|
351 / 40
|
372
of which 8 are foreign citizens
|
151
6 being built
|
|
3
318 / 50
Students
|
51
|
|
Society of Krishna Consciousness
|
30 / 12
|
38
|
12
2 being built
|
|
1
35 / 45
Students
|
8
|
|
Other Eastern Religions
|
40 / 13
|
46
|
12
1 being built
|
|
|
3
|
|
Pagan Communities
|
58 / 3
|
51
|
4
|
|
|
8
|
|
Other Faiths
|
114 / 14
|
114
of which 9 are foreign citizens
|
44
|
1
12 Monks
|
1
|
18
|
|
Total in Ukraine
|
23400 / 1094
|
22626
of which 652 are foreign citizens
|
17667
1974 being built
|
277
5130 Monks and Nuns
214 Missions
|
126
9618 / 8070
Students
|
7684
|
|
Note 1: The firstfigure 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 2001, p. 35-8.
