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Since the beginning of the year, 63 churches of the UOC-MP have been transferred to the OCU

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Since the beginning of the year, 63 Ukrainian religious organizations have transferred to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. In total, 277 religious communities have joined the OCU since the start of the full-scale war, Opendatabot reports.

Since the last update at the end of 2022, the register of churches of the UOC-MP has changed. Since the beginning of the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine and until the end of last year, 214 religious communities have transferred to the Orthodox OCU. In 2023, 63 more Ukrainian religious organizations began to belong to the OCU.

Almost a third of the churches that have changed their affiliation are located in the Kyiv region – 20 churches. 10 religious institutions that have transferred to the OCU since the beginning of the year – in Vinnitsa and Khmelnytsky regions.

According to the law on freedom of conscience and religious organizations, religious institutions must reflect their ties to the aggressor country in the name, but some churches try to hide this data.

The Ministry of Justice informs about this by noting in the name of the institution in the Unified State Register “It is not indicated that it belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church.”

Some churches of the UOC-MP, trying to hide their ties with Russia, arbitrarily corrected the name from the Ministry of Justice to the previous one. All these religious communities are located on the territory of the Chernivtsi region:

  • Religious community of the parish in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina diocese of the UOC of the village of Verkhniye Stanovtsy, Kitsmansky district, Chernivtsi region;
  • Religious community of the parish in honor of St. Nicholas of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina diocese of the UOC Chernivtsi;
  • Religious community of the parish in honor of the Holy Trinity of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina diocese of the UOC of the village of Rzhavintsi, Zastavnovsky district, Chernivtsi region.

In total, there are currently 8505 churches in Ukraine that are subordinate to the UOC-MP. The regions with the largest number of UOC-MP churches have not changed since the end of 2022. These are Donetsk region (683 religious institutions), Khmelnitsky (613) and Vinnitsa (563).

At the same time, it is impossible to accurately calculate the total number of religious communities of the UOC-MP in the register. The only thing that allows you to identify a particular religious institution is the name.

The Department of Religions of the Ministry of Culture noted that the organizations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate have a corresponding indication in the title. If the name of the institution indicates “Ukrainian Orthodox Church” without specifying the patriarchy, then it is associated with the UOC-MP.


 

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