Catholic Church in Ukraine 🇺🇦

By Type (26)

By Rite

Roman Rite (7): Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Kharkiv–Zaporizhia, Kyïv–Žytomyr, Lutsk, Lviv, Mukačeve, Odessa–Simferopol

Armenian Church (1): Lviv

Ruthenian Church (1): Mukačeve

Ukrainian Church (17): Bučač, Chernivtsi, Donets’k, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Kharkiv, Kolomyia, Krym, Kyiv, Kyiv–Halyč, Lutsk, Lviv, Odessa, Sambir–Drohobych, Sokal–Zhovkva, Stryj, Ternopil–Zboriv

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Apostolic Nunciature: Ukraine

Conference of Bishops: Conferenza Episcopale Ucraina

Major Archiepiscopal Synod: Synod of the Ukrainian Catholic Church

International Meeting of Bishops’ Conferences: Consilium Conferentiarum Episcopalium Europæ (C.C.E.E.)

Capital: Kiev

Area: 579,330 km²

Population: 4,033,874

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ Romania , ↙ Hungary , ← Slovakia , ← Poland , ↑ Belarus , ↗ Russia , ↓ Moldova

Cultural Summary

Religions: Orthodox (includes Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox (UAOC), Ukrainian Orthodox - Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)), Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish

Languages: Ukrainian (official) 67.5%, Russian (regional language) 29.6%, other (includes small Crimean Tatar-, Moldovan/Romanian-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities) 2.9%

Ethnic Groups: Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8%

Statistics (2023.12.31)

Area: 603,700 km²

Catholic Population: 4,679,000 Catholics (11.5% of 40,582,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 4,090 parishes, 245 mission stations (242 with resident priest, 3 without resident priest), 223 other centres

Clergy: 47 bishops (18 diocesan, 29 titular), 4,149 priests (3,538 diocesan, 611 religious), 51 permanent deacons (34 diocesan, 17 religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,325 religious (193 brothers, 1,132 sisters), 12 members of secular institutes (sisters), 983 major seminarians, 84 missionaries, 1,796 catechists

Consecrated Persons (Not Ordained)

Seminarians

Lay Missionaries

Catechists