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As of 2016, the Ukrainian state officially recognises only four of the following organisations (RUNVira, Ancestral Fire of the Native Orthodox Faith, the Churches of Ukrainian Gentiles and the Federation of Ukrainian Rodnovers), with more than one hundred local congregations affiliated with these four.
The early church of the Native Ukrainian National Faith was founded by Lev Sylenko in 1966, in the United States, among the Ukrainian diaspora. [57] The first congregation was established in Chicago , and later congregations were founded in Canada , England , Germany , Australia and New Zealand . [ 58 ]
The doctrine of the Church of the Native Ukrainian National Faith, "Sylenkoism" or "Dazhbogism", is monist and centered around the god Dazhbog. As of 2018, there were 0.1% Pagan believers in Ukraine, with a higher percentage in Central Ukraine. [2] Sociologists estimated between 1,000 and 95,000 Rodnovers (0.2%) in Ukraine in the early 2000s.
Rodnovery (Native Faith) (1920–30s) Zadruga (1937) Rodzima Wiara (1996) Native Ukrainian National Faith, RUNVira (1964) Peterburgian Vedism. Union of the Veneds (1986) [2] Skhoron ezh Sloven (1991) [2] Slavic-Hill Rodnovery (1980s) Ynglism (1991) Native Polish Church (1995) Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities (1997) Rodnover ...
Ukrainian Fraternal Association - Founded in 1910 as the Ruthenian National Union, became the Ukrainian Workingmen's Association in 1918, and adopted the present name in 1978. [203] It was open to Ukrainians, Russians and other Slavs without regard to religious or political affiliations; clergy and those who insisted on debating religious ...
Alternately, the Ukrainian organisation Ancestral Fire of the Native Orthodox Faith has established groups in both Moldova and Germany. [10] In Ukraine, much like in Russia, Rodnovery is very popular among Cossacks, and the variety that they embrace, Assianism , is linked to a rediscovery of Scythian identity.
Near the end of the war in Europe, the state media began an anti-Ukrainian-Catholic campaign. [28] The creation of the community in 1596 was discredited in publications, which went to great pains to try to prove the Church was conducting activities directed against Ukrainians in the first half of the 20th century. [28]
At that time thousands of Ukrainians, including hierarchs and clergy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, fled to the West to escape the Soviets. In July 1945 the first council (sobor) of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Abroad was held in Germany to organize the life of the church in the West.