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==Historical Background== | |||
Religion in Ukraine is diverse, with a majority of the population adhering to Christianity. A 2018 survey conducted by the Razumkov Centre found that 71.7% of the population declared themselves believers. About 67.3% of the population declared adherence to one or another strand of '''Orthodox''' Christianity (28.7% of the '''Kiev Patriarchate''', 23.4% state simply 'Orthodox' with no declaration as to which Patriarchate they belong to, 12.8% of the '''Moscow Patriarchate''', 0.3% '''Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church''', and 1.9% other types of Orthodoxy), 7.7% 'Christian' with no declared denominational affiliation, 9.4% '''Ukrainian Byzantine Rite Catholics''', 2.2% '''Protestants''' and 0.8% '''Latin Rite Catholics'''. | |||
As of 2016, Protestants make up 2.2% of the population of Ukraine, with a strong concentration in western Ukraine (5.3%).[1] In the country there are communities of '''Evangelicalism, Baptists, Charismatic Christianity, as well as Methodists, Mennonites, Lutherans, Presbyterians''', and others. There is also a '''Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church''' with about 140,000 members, which is one of the earliest Protestant communities in the country. The '''Embassy of God of Sunday Adelaja''' maintains a significant presence throughout the country, as do other neopentecostal groups. | |||
As of 2016, there are 2,973 Evangelical churches, 2,853 churches of the '''Baptists''', 1,082 '''Seventh-day Adventist''' churches, 128 '''Calvinist''' churches, 79 '''Lutheran''' churches, 1,337 churches of '''Charismatic Christianity''', and 1,347 other organizations belonging to the Protestant spectrum (including 928 '''Jehovah's Witnesses''' halls and 44 '''Mormon [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregations]. In total, as of 2016 there are 9,799 registered Protestant groups in Ukraine.<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Religion in Ukraine", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Ukraine, accessed 20 April 2020. </ref><br> | |||
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