What percentage of Ukrainians are Orthodox?

About 67.3\% of the population declared adherence to one or another strand of Orthodox Christianity (28.7\% of the Kyiv Patriarchate, 23.4\% just Orthodox, 12.8\% of the Moscow Patriarchate, 0.3\% Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, and 1.9\% other types of Orthodoxy), 7.7\% just Christians, 9.4\% Greek Rite Catholics.

Which country has the highest percentage of Eastern Orthodox Christians?

Russia
Overview. Eastern Orthodoxy is the predominant religion in the world’s largest country, Russia (77\%), where roughly half the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians live.

What is the highest position in the Orthodox Church?

bishop
Each constituent church is self-governing; its highest-ranking bishop called the primate (a patriarch, a metropolitan or an archbishop) reports to no higher earthly authority. Each regional church is composed of constituent eparchies (or dioceses) ruled by bishops.

Are most Ukrainians Catholic?

The majority of Ukrainian Catholics belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church in the territories of modern Ukraine has been strongly associated with Poland and Poles, but the church has emphasized a Ukrainian identity since the nation’s independence from the Soviet Union.

What area of the world has the largest population of Eastern Orthodox members?

In Russia, which has the world’s largest Orthodox population (101 million), just 6\% of Orthodox Christians say they attend church at least once a week, 15\% say religion is “very important” in their lives and 18\% say they pray daily.

Can an orthodox Subdeacon marry?

Canonical discipline Like the reader, the clerical street-dress of the subdeacon is the cassock, which is usually black but only need be so if he is a monk. The reason for this lies in the fact that the canons prohibit subdeacons to marry after their ordination (just like deacons and priests).