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Church affiliation in Ukraine

Religious adherence polls based on CIA factbook or Razumkov Centre are misleading. The biggest problem is the religious split between two largest Ukrainian Orthodox Churches - Ukrainian Orthodox Curch-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP). Majority of of Ukrainians are not able to identify themselves with a particular church organization (62.5 % according to 2006 Razumkov Center poll [[http://razumkov.org.ua/ukr/poll.php?poll_id=300 "What religious group do you belong to?". Sociology poll by Razumkov Centre),but majority of them still consider themselves Orthodox Christians (even if they only attend church services few times a year or not at all). Majority of this 62.5 % of Ukrainians were also baptized in UOC-MP churches and attend church services (even if only during Easter mess) in UOC-MP churches. This is simply because great majority of Ukrainian Orthodox churches and clergy belong to UOC-MP (approximately 68 % of all Orthodox Christian communities in the country - see Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)). The trick that allows UOC-KP to make claim to be the largest church in Ukraine is that the majority of their adherents clearly indicate they belong to UOC-KP (which is generally more nationalist and politicized), while most people who were baptized by UOC-MP and attend UOC-MP church services simply state they are Orthodox Christians. UOC-MP also often portrays itself as the canonical Orthodox Christian church in Ukraine rather than the "Moscow church", downplaying its connections with Moscow Patriarchate (esp. in Central and Western Ukraine) and this also contributes to the confusion polls on church allegiance in Ukraine create. In addition, many of the UOC-MP churches and majority of people who identify with UOC-MP are in the more urbanized South and East Ukraine where church attendance is low compared to the rural Central and Western Ukraine where UOC-KP is the strongest. If the pollsters would have used a different methodology that would explained the differences between the two churches and really press the Ukrainians to choose between the two more than 50 % of Ukrainians would likely identify with UOC-MP while only around 15 % with UOC-KP, yet the CIA Factbook statistics paint the picture which is almost the exact opposite. The religious divide in Ukraine is not exactly the same as a linguistic, political, cultural and historical divide in Ukraine between Russian-speaking south-east(majority of Yanukovych voters in the second round of the recent presidential poll) and Ukrainian speaking north-west (mostly Tymoshenko voters), there is an Orthodox Christian majority in the North and Central Ukraine and a sizable Orthodox minority (including the UOC-MP laity) in the West, yet there is a relation to the overall split which divides Ukraine in two. Roughly 55 to 60 % of more or less religious Ukrainians identify with UOC-MP (or the canonical Orthodox Ukrainian church as many know it) while the rest are members of UOC-KP church, Greko-Catholic church, Roman Catholic church, various Protestant churches and so on.

--Fisenko

scope

Forks are generally a bad idea. We have articles for each religion and the material belongs there.

I could envision the article about the inter-religious interaction but that would have been the article totally different from this one. --Irpen 03:09, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Overlapping Content

Content related to that of this article is now being discussed at Talk:History_of_Christianity_in_Ukraine. Qe2 (talk) 06:21, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To conform with consensus reached at Talk:History_of_Christianity_in_Ukraine, I have ordered the listing of Orthodox Churches in Ukraine according to number of adherents, as measured by consistent scientific surveys. Qe2 (talk) 05:31, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Religious structure of society

+ Islam_in_Ukraine#Statistics --195.110.6.24 (talk) 12:26, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Official religion

Is there an official (constitutional) religion of Ukraine? --195.110.6.24 (talk) 12:26, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[1] says no state religion. Ostap 17:10, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]