Two great Orthodox churches continue to exist in Ukraine. The Ukrainians wanted to unite with the Primate of the OCU, Metropolitan Epiphanius.
RBC-Ukraine reports this on the data of the KISC survey.
For the survey data, more Ukrainians – 70 % – respect themselves as Orthodox. Among them, the largest number – 56% of all respondents – secure themselves in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which is 81% of all Orthodox citizens of Ukraine.
Another 7% secure themselves in the Orthodox Church without specification і 6% – to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP).
Next come atheists (12%) and those who insure themselves before the UKGC (7%). Other options were chosen by no more than 3% of respondents.
One Church
Most Ukrainians (61%) support the idea of having at least one Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Do not support – 16%, and for another 20% the price is byproduct.
Among the possible options, the approach with the greatest support is that if hierarchs and simple priests of the UOC-MP join the OCU and become part of it. A total of 71% of respondents expressed their opinion about this food. Among them, the majority – 78% – supported such an approach (up to 55% of the entire population).
The majority of respondents respect that such acceptance is only possible for hierarchs and ordinary priests of the UOC MP, who didn’t blurt it out for themselves connections with Russia. This option is supported by 47% of all respondents and 66% of those who think about their diet.
The option, if all the hierarchs and priests of the UOC-MP join the OCU and become part of it, was supported by 8% of all respondents and 11% of those who were identified.
Head of the church
According to the question, which among the bishops is more consistent with the placement of the head of the united Orthodox Church, Epiphany clearly retains leadership – 50% of all respondents wanted to see him as one ї Orthodox Church (76% of those who came out of their own thoughts).
The following options include the other hierarchy from Ukraine (8% of all respondents and 12% of those who were identified), Onufriy (obviously, 6% and 9%) and the other hierarchy between Ukraine (2% and 3%). A third of respondents confirmed that they do not have a formed position or anything else.
Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) checked the quality of education on 20 June – 3 June 2024 to the middle of 2004 respondents. Before the selection, residents of territories that are currently not controlled by the authorities of Ukraine were not included.
It is likely that, according to data from the Razumkov Center, at the end of 2023, most people in Ukraine identified themselves as Orthodox 'yam (61%). After the start of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, the number of loyal UOCs to the Moscow Patriarchate began to fall significantly (from 13% in 2021 to 6% in 2023).