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Appendices

Appendix 1

Religious Organizations in Ukraine

Institutions - Name of Church
or Religious Denomination

Communities (*see note 1)

Pastoral Ministers

Periodicals

Monasteries/ Missions

Educational Institutions (*see note 2)

Sunday Schools

Ukrainian Orthodox Church
(of the
Moscow Patriarchate)

10,310 / 74

8,620
of which 13 are foreign citizens

95

151
4,095 Monks and Nuns

5 Missions

15
1,698 / 2,584 Students

3,746

Ukrainian Orthodox Church
of the Kievan Patriarchate

3,352 / 43

2,588

25

34
185 Monks and Nuns

23 Missions

16
916 / 565 Students

1,086

Ukrainian Autocephalous
Orthodox Church

1,154 / 2

685

7

5
12 Monks and Nuns

7 Missions

7
181 / 77 Students

325

Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Church

3,328 / 12

2,051
of which 47 are foreign citizens

27

92
1,134 Monks and Nuns

9 Missions

13
1,385 / 196 Students

1,132

Roman Catholic Church

854 / 9

474
of which 268 are foreign citizens

13

80
635 Monks and Nuns

37 Missions

7
338 / 444 Students

518

Armenian Apostolic Church

20

14
of which 9 are foreign citizens

 

 

 

3

Old Believers

61 / 9

35
of which 5 are foreign citizens

 

2
4 Monks

 

10

Baptist Union

2,311 / 56

2,818
of which 16 are foreign citizens

18

80 Missions

40
2,169 / 4,718 Students

1,339

Other Baptists

382 / 52

509
of which 22 are foreign citizens

3

15 Missions

8
347 / 232 Students

183

Pentecostal Union

1,349 / 75

2,152
of which 12 are foreign citizens

21

50 Missions

15
723 / 175 Students

956

Other Pentecostals

504 / 143

690
of which 10 are foreign citizens

26

21 Missions

7
144 / 205 Students

287

Full Gospel Church (Charismatics)

437 / 1

494
of which 7 are foreign citizens

13

6 Missions

3
500 / 25 Students

174

Other Charismatics

444 / 37

590
of which 6 are foreign citizens

20

8 Missions

6
415 / 50 Students

248

7th Day Adventists

941 / 50

1,166
of which 6 are foreign citizens

8

2 Missions

3
55 / 427 Students

669

Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church

107 / 2

68
of which 8 are foreign citizens

1

 

 

105

Lutherans

84 / 2

80
of which 9 are foreign citizens

3

 

2
17 Students

43

Other Protestant Communities and Centers

189 / 9

275
of which 36 are foreign citizens

4

1 Mission

2
38 / 162 Students

92

Mormons

32 / 24

309
of which 110 are foreign citizens

 

 

 

46

Jehovah's Witnesses

579 / 339

1,936
of which 34 are foreign citizens

 

 

 

233

Jewish Communities

239 / 1

136
of which 60 are foreign citizens

21

1 Mission

5
81 / 30 Students

77

Muslims

445 / 22

433
of which 20 are foreign citizens

5

 

7
276 Students

90

Society of Krishna Consciousness

30 / 8

43
of which 1 is foreign citizen

2

 

2
150 / 50 Students

7

Buddhists

42 / 3

35

1

1
5 Monks

 

2

Other Eastern Religions

22 / 16

37

 

 

 

3

Pagan Communities

75 / 2

70

4

1 Mission

2
25 / 9
Students

13

Other Faiths

288 / 56

342
of which 29 are foreign citizens

6

12 Missions

3
- / 43
Students

66

Total in Ukraine

27,579 / 1,047

26,650
of which 728 are foreign citizens

323

365
6,070 Monks and Nuns

283 Missions

163
9,458 / 9,992
Students

11,453

as of 1 January, 2004

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: The first figure denotes the number of educational establishments; the second figure the number of full-time students; the third figure the number of part-time (correspondence) students.

Statistics supplied by the National Committee on Religious Matters of Ukraine, as noted in Journal Liudyna i Svit, Kyiv, January 2004, p. 31-34.

 

Appendix 2

Comparative Statistics of Parishes in Western Ukraine (2004)*

 

Region

UOC (Moscow Patiarchate)

UOC - Kyivan Patriarchate

UAOC

UGCC

 

Western Ukraine

209

897

806

2,946

 

[Total Orthodox:] 1,912

 

[Total UGCC:]

2,946

* Statistics supplied by the National Committee on Religious Matters of Ukraine.