Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A.

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Basic Information

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. was founded in 1915 by Ukranian immigrants who left the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1996 it merged with the former Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America (Ecumenical Patriarchate).

History

Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America

merged intoUkrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. (1915)

 

Snapshot

  1990 2000 Growth/Decline
Congregations 23 104 +81 (352.2%)
Adherents -- 35,586 (%)

Notes

Snapshot data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc.

History data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [More information on history data sources]