Religious Organizations in Ukraine as of 1 January, 2001
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 |
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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.