In the Mykolaiv region, only 10 of the 296 churches of the Moscow Patriarchate have transferred to the OCU

In the Mykolaiv region, only 10 out of 296 UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate transferred to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

This is evidenced by the data of the «Espresso» transition maps as of December 2023.

After the granting of Tomos to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, more than 1.5 thousand communities announced their transition from the Moscow Patriarchate to the OCU. The largest number of congregations left the UOC MP in Khmelnytskyi region — 359. More than 200 parishes changed denominational affiliation in Kyiv region and Volyn, more than a hundred congregations — in Vinnytsia (193), Zhytomyr (174), and Rivne (105) regions.

Occupied territories are not included in the statistics, since it is not yet possible to carry out transitions in Luhansk Oblast or Crimea. Jurisdiction was changed for one community in the Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions, 5 parishes were transferred to the Kherson region, 8 to the Kharkiv region, and 9 to the capital.

The fewest UOC MP parishes remained in Galicia: 15 in Ivano-Frankivsk region, 37 in Lviv region and 73 in Ternopil region. In addition, these regions have the highest percentage of transitions from the Moscow Patriarchate to the OCU. In Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the Moscow Patriarchate lost 53% of its parishes, in Lviv Oblast exactly half, and in Ternopil Oblast the UOC MP lost 37% of its churches. Khmelnytskyi Oblast is not far behind Ternopil Oblast. Here, the pro-Russian denomination lost 36% of its parishes.

«The map shows information about the number of parishes in the regions that left the UOC MP as of December of this year. The data is collected from open sources, so an error is possible. With the arrival of new data, Espresso will update the map,» the publication writes.

We remind you that the Russian Orthodox Church released the «Patriarchal Calendar» - the official publication of the Russian Orthodox Church, which includes all active bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, while the latter are described precisely as bishops of the Orthodox Church. They included three bishops of the Mykolaiv Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

We also remind, Mykolaiv People's Deputies almost unanimously supported the ban on religious organizations connected with the Russian Federation in the first reading, which can stop the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.