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Islam in Ukraine is the second largest religion after Christianity. Islam in the lands of Ukraine is hundreds of years old, but it has a long and complicated history here. Historically, there were two main ways of spreading Islam in Ukraine: the eastern (North Caucasus) and southern (Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire).
By the 9th century, it is known that the Slavic population of western Ukraine (likely the White Croats) had accepted Christianity while under the rule of Great Moravia. However, it was the East Slavs who came to dominate most of the territory of present-day Ukraine, beginning with the rule of the Rus' , whose pantheon of gods had held a ...
Pastoral care has grown steadily from several establishments in the Western Part of Ukraine to more than 40 penal institutions in every region of the country. Since 2001 the UGCC is the co-founder of the Ukrainian Interdenominational Christian Mission "Spiritual and Charitable Care in Prisons" including twelve Churches and Denominations.
The Ukrainian Orthodox in Western Europe were divided between the two bishops, with Archbishop Nicanor supervising the remaining parishes in Germany and Metropolitan Polycarp, who had headed the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine during the war years under the oversight of Metropolitan Dionysius (Waledynski) of Warsaw ...
Several Eastern Orthodox bishops decided against the union, primarily in Ruthenian Voivodeship (Palatinatus russiae, what today is Western Ukraine) however due to the weak state of Orthodox Christianity in 16th centure caused by Ottoman and Mongol invasions were not able to stop the uniat influence.
The history of the Catholic Church in modern Ukraine starts as early as the 10th century when Christianity in Ruthenia was established as a state religion in 988 taking place before the East–West Schism. While records of Christians and Christian temples in the Medieval state predate the date.
The spread of Christianity in Ukraine is associated with the legend of St. Andrew the Apostle. The first historical Christian communities in the Ukrainian Crimea were founded at the end of the 1st century by Pope Clement I, who was in exile there.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ukraine (2 C, 2 P) E. Eastern Christianity in Ukraine (4 C, 1 P) P. Protestantism in Ukraine (6 C, 12 P)