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Since 2018, 1.5 thousand MP communities have moved to OCU

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At the same time, GESS does not have information about the number of liquidated religious organizations of the UOC-MP.

1,502 religious communities were transferred from the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). This was reported by the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom in response to a request from the Interfax-Ukraine agency.

Since 2018, since the creation of the OCU, the subordination in canonical and organizational matters to the religious centers (administration) of the OCU was changed in 2018 by the two religious communities of the UOC MP; in 2019 – 319 communities; in 2020 – 30; in 2021 – 25; in 2022 – 496; in 2023 – 471; from the beginning of 2024 – 159 communities.

At the same time, the department has no information about the number of liquidated religious organizations of the UOC-MP.

According to the report on the network of religious organizations, as of January 1, 2024 (according to regional state (military) administrations) there were 10,919 UOC MP religious organizations operating in Ukraine, of which 51 were religious centers/administrations , which includes 10,586 communities (6,037 of which are legal entities) and 214 monasteries (104 women and 110 men); 34 fraternities; 17 religious educational institutions (11 secondary and six higher).

As for the OCU, as of January 1, 2024, there are 8,295 religious organizations operating in Ukraine, of which 56 are religious centers/directorates, which include 8,075 communities (3,400 of them legal entities) and 87 monasteries ; 16 fraternities; 26 religious educational institutions (13 secondary and 13 higher).

Earlier, GESS reported that only the court will decide the issue of terminating the activities of a religious organization related to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Let’s recall that on August 20, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a bill banning the activities of religious organizations associated with Russia in Ukraine. And on August 24, President Zelensky signed this law. After the law takes effect, Ukrainian churches suspected of collaborating with the Russian Orthodox Church will have 9 months to sever ties.

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