Kirovograd Regional State Administration tells how many UOC communities have been re-registered over the past three years

The Kirovohrad Regional Administration reported on the number of religious communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that have been re-registered to the OCU since 2022. As of May 2025, the OCU network in the region includes 148 religious communities, and the UOC — 285. At the same time, only 15 communities of the UOC have undergone the re-registration process. This is reported by the regional publication «Access Point».

It is reported that the largest number of re-registrations of UOC communities in favor of the OCU was recorded in 2022.

2022 — 8:
village Kapitanivka — Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary;
village Martonosha — Church of the Great Martyr St. George the Victorious;
village Panchevo — St. Nicholas Church;
village Adzhamka — Holy Protection Church;
village Turia — Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary;
village Chervone — Holy Dormition Church;
village Korobchino — Holy Dormition Church;
village Novoselytsia — Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

2023 — 4:
city of Novomyrhorod — St. Nicholas Church;
village of Pryiutivka — Church of the Great Martyr Yurii Pobedonosets;
city of Svitlovodsk — Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God;
village of Velyka Skelna — St. Nicholas Church.

2024 — 2:
village of Lozuvata — St. Demetrius Church;
village of Nedoharky — Church of Prince Volodymyr the Equal-to-the-Apostles.

2025 — 1:
village of Kukolivka — Church of the Archangel Michael.

In total, religious organizations in the Kirovohrad region use 240 religious buildings. 70 of them belong to the OCU and 151 to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Another 19 religious buildings are used by other denominations.

As we reported earlier, on May 4, 2025, in the village of Banyliv-Pidhirnyi, Chernivtsi region, “chaplains” and supporters of the OCU, with the support of local authorities, held a “territorial meeting” at which they “transferred” two local churches of the UOC to the OCU. These are the churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in honor of the Ascension of the Lord and the Holy Spirit. The process was traditionally led by the odious “chaplain” of the OCU Roman Hryshchuk.