Religion

On January, 1, 2008, the religion net of Kherson region encompasses 821 religion organizations, among which: 8 departments, 2 monasteries, 5 missions, 1 brotherhood, 1 religion educational institution and 804 religion communities.

The religion structure of Kherson region looks like this: the dominant factor of the religion life of the region is the Orthodox faith, whose communities take the prevalent quantity in the region: - 448. They are represented by: Ukrainian Orthodox Church, including 332 communities; Svjato-Grirorjevskiy (Bizukov) male monastery in the village Krasnij Majak, Berislav district and 1 brotherhood; Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kiev Patriarchy, including 72 communities; Ukrainian Autocephaly Orthodox Church, including 44 communities.

In Kherson region there is also Rome-Catholic Church, which includes 15 communities.

Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church consists of 23 communities and a male monastery of Svjatoy Volodimir and Great Father Vasilian in Kherson.

223 communities in the region belong to Protestant Movements, such as: 81 communities are the members of Whole-Ukrainian Union of Christian-Baptists, 24 – Iegov’s Witnesses, 22 – Adventists of the 7th Day, 42 - Christians of the Faith of evangelic fifth-part, 9 – Evangelic Christians, 5 – Presbyterians, 1- Mennonites, 3 – German-Evangelic-Lutheran Church, 1 – Ukrainian Lutheran church, 3 – Episcopal (Anglican) Church.

Besides this, among non-traditional Protestants there are such registrants as 75 communities of charismats (of Full Version of Testament - 51, The God’s Church - 24). To non-traditional ones belong also 5 communities of New Apostles and 1 Church of Jesus Christ of the Last Days (Mormons).
In the region there are also 28 communities of Muslims. Jews obtain 8 communities, 7 of which belong to the Hassid Commonwealth of Habad Lubavich. In the region there are also new communities for it: Buddhists -2, Khrisnaits -1 and Sahagy-Joga followers -1.

In spite of the common tendencies in spreading of particular religion confessions, in the districts of the region there are some stable differences in spreading of different confessions and movements.

The religion communities actively participate in the world charity movement “Mercy” and regularly propose financial aid in form of medical equipment, food, clothes, other necessary things for hospitals, orphan-houses, and child institutions, provide care about homeless children, etc.