List of monasteries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an Eastern Orthodox religious body in Ukraine, with 251 monasteries and convents in its various dioceses.

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

There are 22 monasteries one of them having a stauropegial status.

Dzhankoy Diocese

1. Transfiguration Monastery

Feodosiya Diocese (2)

1. Katerlez St. George's Convent
2. Kyzyltash St. Stephen of Sourozh's Monastery

Eparchy of Kyiv (1)

1. St. Paisius Velichkovsky's stauropegial Monastery

Simferopol Diocese (18)

1. Annunciation male metochion
2. Balaclava St. George's Monastery
3. Holy Dormition and St. Anastasia's Monastery
4. Holy Trinity Convent
5. Inkerman St. Clement's Monastery
6. Korsun Icon of the Mother of God female skete
7. Mangup Mountain Annunciation Monastery
8. Nativity of Christ male metochion
9. Protection of the Mother of God Monastery]
10. St. Anastasia the Great Martyr's male skete
11. St. Lazarus of Murom's Monastery
12. St. Luke the Apostle's Monastery
13. St. Nicholas's Monastery
14. St. Sabbas the Sanctifieds's Monastery
15. St. Theodore Stratelates the Great Martyr's Monastery
16. Sts. Cosma and Damian's Monastery
17. Toplovskiy St. Parasceva's Convent
18. Transfiguration male skete

Cherkasy Oblast

There are 11 monasteries.

Cherkasy Diocese

1. Chyhyryn Holy Trinity Convent
2. Krasnohirskiy Protection of the Mother of God Convent
3. Lebedyn St. Nicholas's Convent
4. Motronynskyi Holy Trinity Convent
5. Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
6. St. Alexis the Man of God's Monastery
7. St. Onuphrius's Monastery
8. Transfiguration Convent

Uman Diocese

1. "Hegumenness of Holy Mt. Athos" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
2. St. George's Convent
3. St. Panteleimon's Convent

Chernihiv Oblast

There are 12 monasteries.

Chernigiv Diocese

1. Danivka St. George's Convent
2. Domnytsya Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
3. Novhorod-Siverskyy Transfiguration Monastery
4. St. Lawrence of Chernihiv's Convent
5. Yeletskiy Holy Dormition Convent

Nizhyn Diocese

1. "Healer" Icon of the Mother of God female metochion
2. Annunciation Monastery
3. Entry of the Mother of God Convent
4. Hustynya Holy Trinity Convent
5. Krupytsky St. Nicholas's Convent
6. Meeting Of the Lord female metochion
7. Rykhly Desert St. Nicholas's Monastery

Chernivtsi Oblast

Chernivtsi and Bukovina Diocese

1. "Gorecha" Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
2. Boyany Icon of the Mother of God Convent
3. Buncheny Ascension Monastery
4. Entry of the Mother of God Convent
5. Kolinkivtsi St. Vladimir's Monastery]
6. Kulivtsi Holy Dormition Monastery
7. Myrrh-bearers’ Convent
8. Neporotovo St. Nicholas's Monastery
9. Protection of the Mother of God Convent
10. St. Anne's Convent
11. St. Athanasius the Athonite's Convent
12. St. John of Sochava's Convent
13. St. John the Theologian's Monastery
14. St. Panteleimon's male metochion
15. St. Seraphim's Monastery

Dnipropetrivsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Diocese

1. "Holy Sign" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
2. Ascension Convent
3. Holy Trinity Desert Monastery
4. Samara St. Nicholas's Monastery]
5. Tikhvin Convent

Kamianske Diocese

1. Protection of the Mother of God Convent
2. St. Joseph's Convent

Eparchy of Kryvyi Rih

1. Protection of the Mother of God Convent
2. St. Vladimir the Priest-Martyr's Monastery

Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk Diocese

1. "Joy of All Who Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God female skete
2. All Saints' male skete
3. Holy Dormition female skete
4. Iberian Icon of the Mother of God Convent
5. Kasperivska Icon of the Mother of God Convent
6. St. Basil's Monastery
7. St. George's male skete
8. St. John of Shanghai's male skete
9. St. Nicholas's Convent
10. Sts. Antony and Theodosius of the Caves' male skete
11. Svyatohirsk Holy Dormition Lavra
12. Turkowice Icon of the Mother of God female skete]

Horlivka Diocese

1. Protection Mother of God female skete
2. St. Sergius of Radonezh's Convent
3. St. Stephen's Convent]

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese

1. Dukonya Holy Trinity Monastery
2. Protection of the Mother of God Convent
3. Uhornyky St. Michael the Archangel's Monastery]

Kharkiv Oblast

Izium Diocese

1. Nativity of St. John the Forerunner male skete
2. Pisky Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
3. Sts. Boris and Gleb's Convent

Kharkiv Diocese

1. Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
2. St. Michael the Archangel's Convent

Kherson Oblast

Kherson Diocese

1. Annunciation Convent
2. Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
3. St. Nicholas's female skete

Nova Kakhovka Diocese

1. Bizyukiv St. Gregory's Monastery
2. Korsun Icon of the Mother of God Convent

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Kamianets-Podilskyi Diocese

1. Holy Trinity Convent

Khmelnytskyi Diocese

1. "Life-Bearing Well" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
2. Exaltation of Cross Monastery
3. St. John the Forerunner's Monastery
4. St. Michael the Archangel's female skete
5. Transfiguration Convent

Shepetivka Diocese

1. Horodyshche Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
2. St. Alexander Nevsky's Convent
3. St. Anne's Convent

Kirovohrad Oblast

Kropyvnytskyi Diocese

1. St. Elizabeth's Monastery

Oleksandriya Diocese

1. Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
2. Theophany Convent

Kyiv Oblast

Bila Tserkva Diocese

1. Rzhyshchiv Transfiguration Monastery
2. St. Barbara the Great Martyr's Convent
3. St. Mary Magdalene the-Equal-to-the-Apostles' Convent
4. St. Seraphim's Monastery
5. Sts. Regal Martyrs' Convent

Boryspil Diocese

1. "Life-Bearing Well" Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
2. Ascension Monastery
3. Holy Dormition Convent
4. St. Michael the Archangel's Monastery
5. Transfiguration Monastery

Kyiv Diocese

1. "Comfort and Consolation" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
2. "Kyiv Brotherhood" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
3. "Listener" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
4. Annunciation Monastery
5. Deposition of Robe of the Mother of God in Blachernae Monastery
6. Flor’s Ascension Convent
7. Holosiyive Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
8. Holy Trinity and St. Jonah's Monastery
9. Kytayeve Holy Trinity Monastery
10. Kyiv Entry of the Mother of God Monastery
11. Kyiv Holy Dormition Caves Lavra
12. Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Tserkovshchina Tract Monastery
13. Protection of the Mother of God Convent
14. St. Alexander of Rome the Martyr's male skete
15. St. Cyril's Monastery
16. St. Michael's stauropegial male metochion
17. St. Nicholas's female skete
18. St. Olga the-Equal-to-the-Apostles' Convent
19. St. Panteleimon's Convent
20. Tikhvin St. Nicholas's Convent
21. Tithe Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
22. Transfiguration Monastery
23. Transfiguration Convent
24. Ven. Anastasia of Kyiv's Convent
25. Zvirynets St. Michael the Archangel's Monastery

Luhansk Oblast

Donetsk Diocese

1. St. Theodosius of Chernihiv's male skete

Luhansk Diocese

1. Ascension Monastery
2. Iberian Icon of the Mother of God female community]
3. Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Conven
4. St. John the Forerunner's Monastery
5. St. Olga the Regal Martyr's Convent

Rovenky Diocese

1. St. Andrew's Monastery

Severodonetsk Diocese

1. St. Elijah's Monastery
2. St. Sergius of Radonezh's Monastery
3. Starobilsk "Joy of All Who Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God Convent

Lviv Oblast

Lviv Diocese

1. St. Onuphrius's Monastery]
2. Transfiguration Convent

Mykolayiv Oblast

Mykolaiv Diocese

1. Pelahiyivka St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
2. Sts. Constantine and Helen's Monastery

Odesa Oblast

Balta Diocese

1. "Joy of All Who Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
2. Protection of the Mother of God and Balta St. Theodosius Monastery

Odesa Diocese

1. "Pantanassa" Icon of the Mother of God male skete
2. Ascension female skete
3. Borysivka Transfiguration Convent
4. Iberian Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
5. Nativity of Christ male skete
6. Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
7. Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God female skete
8. Odesa Holy Dormition Monastery
9. Protection of the Mother of God male skete
10. St. Elijah's Monastery
11. St. John the Forerunner's male skete
12. St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
13. St. Nicholas's Monastery
14. St. Panteleimon's Monastery
15. Sts. Constantine and Helen's Monastery]
16. Teplodar Resurrection Convent

Poltava Oblast

Kremenchuk Diocese

1. Kozelshchyna Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
2. Pototsky Sts. Antony and Theodosius's Monastery

Poltava Diocese

1. Holy Cross Exaltation Monastery
2. Mhar Transfiguration Monastery
3. Velyki Budyshcha Holy Trinity Convent

Rivne Oblast

Moscow Diocese

1. Korets Holy Trinity Stauropegial Convent

Rivne Diocese

1. Annunciation Convent
2. Ascension female skete
3. Derman Holy Trinity Convent
4. Horodok St. Nicholas's Convent
5. Hoshcha Protection of the Mother of God Convent
6. Holy Dormition Monastery
7. Iberian Icon of the Mother of God Convent]
8. Mezhyrich Holy Trinity Monastery
9. Myrrh-bearers’ female skete
10. Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
11. St. Anne's female skete
12. St. Barbara the Great Martyr's male skete
13. St. George's female metochion
14. The Synaxis of Twelve Apostles female skete

Sarny Diocese

1. "Life-Bearing Well" Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
2. Iberian Icon of the Mother of God Convent
3. Protection of the Mother of God Monastery]
4. Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
5. Volyn Icon of the Mother of God Convent]

Sumy Oblast

Kyiv Diocese

1. Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Glinskaya Pustyn stauropegial Monastery

Konotop Diocese

1. Molchansky Caves Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
2. Sofronievo-Molchansky Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery
3. St. Charalampias the Priest-Martyr's Convent
4. St. Nicholas's female metochion

Sumy Diocese

1. Okhtyrka Holy Trinity Monastery

Ternopil Oblast

Kyiv Diocese

1. Pochayiv Holy Dormition Lavra

Ternopil Diocese

1. Kremenets Theophany Convent
2. Pochayiv Holy Spirit Monastery
3. Zahaytsi St. John the Almoner's Monastery

Vinnytsia Oblast

Kyiv Diocese

1. Holy Trinity Stauropegial Convent
2. Pochayiv Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial female skete

Mohyliv-Podilskyi Diocese

1. Beheading of St. John 's Monastery
2. St. Nicholas's Monastery
3. Transfiguration Monastery
4. Holy Dormition Monastery
5. St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
6. Bar Icon of the Mother of God Convent
7. Brayiliv Holy Trinity Convent
8. Lemeshivka St. John the Theologian's Monastery

Volyn Oblast

Kyiv Diocese (2)

1. St. Alexander Nevsky's stauropegial Convent
2. Zymne Svytohirsky Holy Dormition stauropegial Convent

Volodymyr-Volynsk Diocese

1. Myltsi St. Nicholas's Monastery
2. Nyzkynychi Holy Dormition Monastery
3. St. John the Forerunner's male skete
4. Svityaz Sts. Peter and Paul's Monastery

Volyn Diocese

1. Exaltation of Cross Monastery
2. Mikhnivka Meeting of the Lord Convent
3. Starosilye Holy Trinity Convent

Zakarpattia Oblast

Khust Diocese

1. "Unexpected Joy" Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
2. Ascension Convent
3. Holy Trinity Convent
4. Holy Trinity Monastery
5. Hrusheve St. Michael the Archangel's Monastery
6. Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
7. Protection of the Mother of God male skete]
8. St. Elijah's Monastery
9. St. Elijah's male skete
10. St. George's Monastery
11. St. John the Forerunner's Monastery (Bedevlya)
12. St. John the Forerunner's Monastery (Roztoky)
13. St. John the Theologian's Convent
14. St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
15. St. Nicholas's Monastery
16. St. Panteleimon's Monastery
17. St. Panteleimon's female skete
18. St. Seraphim's Convent
19. St. Sergius of Radonezh's Convent
20. St. Simeon's Monastery
21. St. Stephen's Monastery
22. Transfiguration Monastery
23. Uhlya Holy Dormition Convent

Mukachevo Diocese

1. Entry of the Mother of God Convent
2. Holy Dormition Convent
3. Holy Dormition Monastery
4. Kazan Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
5. Krasnohirskiy All Saints' Monastery
6. Mukachevo St. Nicholas's Convent
7. Pochayiv Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
8. Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
9. Protection of the Mother of God male skete
10. Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
11. Resurrection Monastery
12. St. George's Monastery]
13. St. John the Forerunner's Convent
14. St. John the Theologian's Monastery
15. St. Mary Magdalene the-Equal-to-the-Apostles's Convent
16. St. Panteleimon's Monastery
17. St. Seraphim's Convent
18. St. Vladimir the-Equal-to-the-Apostles' Monastery
19. Sts. Cyril and Methodius's Convent

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Berdyansk Diocese

1. Holy Dormition Convent
2. St. Ambrose of Optina's Monastery
3. St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
4. St. Seraphim's Convent

Zaporizhzhia Diocese

1. St. Elizabeth's Convent
2. St. John the Theologian's Convent
3. St. Nicholas's Convent
4. St. Sabbas the Sanctified's Monastery
5. Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God female skete

Zhytomyr Oblast

Kyiv Diocese

1. "Assuage My Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial Convent
2. Athos Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial Convent
3. Horodnytsya St. George's stauropegial Monastery
4. Iberian Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial female skete]
5. St. John the Russian's stauropegial male metochion
6. St. Silvanus the Athonite's stauropegial male skete
7. Zhytomyr St. Anastasia of Rome's stauropegial Convent

Ovruch Diocese

1. Kazan Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
2. St. Basil's Convent

Zhytomyr Diocese

1. Chervone Nativity of Christ Convent
2. Holy Mandylion Protection Convent
3. Tryhirya Transfiguration Monastery

Sub-list of stauropegial monasteries

1. Korets Holy Trinity Stauropegial Convent, belongs directly to the Russian Orthodox Church

1. St. Paisius Velichkovsky's stauropegial Monastery (Autonomous Republic of Crimea)
2. Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Glinskaya Pustyn stauropegial Monastery (Sumy Oblast)
3. Pochayiv Holy Dormition Lavra (Ternopil Oblast)
4. Holy Trinity Stauropegial Convent (Vinnytsia Oblast)
5. Pochayiv Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial female skete (Vinnytsia Oblast)
6. St. Alexander Nevsky's stauropegial Convent (Volyn Oblast)
7. Zymne Svytohirsky Holy Dormition stauropegial Convent (Volyn Oblast)
8. "Assuage My Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial Convent (Zhytomyr Oblast)
9. Athos Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial Convent (Zhytomyr Oblast)
10. Horodnytsya St. George's stauropegial Monastery (Zhytomyr Oblast)
11. Iberian Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial female skete] (Zhytomyr Oblast)
12. St. John the Russian's stauropegial male metochion (Zhytomyr Oblast)
13. St. Silvanus the Athonite's stauropegial male skete (Zhytomyr Oblast)
14. Zhytomyr St. Anastasia of Rome's stauropegial Convent (Zhytomyr Oblast)

Statistics

Monasteries by oblast

• Zakarpattia Oblast – 42
• Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast – 25
• Autonomous Republic of Crimea – 22
• Rivne Oblast – 20
• Odesa Oblast – 18
• Chernivtsi Oblast – 15
• Donetsk Oblast – 15
• Chernihiv Oblast – 12
• Zhytomyr Oblast – 12
• Cherkasy Oblast – 11
• Luhansk Oblast – 10
• Vinnytsia Oblast – 10
• Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – 9
• Khmelnytskyi Oblast – 9
• Volyn Oblast – 9
• Zaporizhia Oblast – 9
• Sumy Oblast – 6
• Kharkiv Oblast – 5
• Kherson Oblast – 5
• Poltava Oblast – 5
• Ternopil Oblast – 4
• Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast – 3
• Kirovohrad Oblast – 3
• Lviv Oblast – 2
• Mykolaiv Oblast – 2

Monasteries by eparchy (diocese)

• Kyiv – 39 (Kyiv–25, ARC–1, Sumy–1, Ternopil–1, Vinnytsia–2, Volyn–2, Zhytomyr–7)
• Khust – 23 (Zakarpattia)
• Mukachevo – 19 (Zakarpattia)
• Simferopol – 18 (ARC)
• Odesa – 16 (Odesa)
• Bukovina – 15 (Chernivtsi)
• Rivne – 14 (Rivne)
• Donetsk – 13 (Donetsk–12, Luhansk–1)
• Cherkasy – 8 (Cherkasy)
• Mohyliv-Podilskyi – 8 (Vinnytsia)
• Nizhyn – 7 (Chernihiv)
• Chernihiv – 5 (Chernihiv)
• Dnipro – 5 (Dnipropetrovsk)
• Khmelnytskyi – 5 (Khmelnytskyi)
• Bila Tserkva – 5 (Kyiv)
• Boryspil – 5 (Kyiv)
• Luhansk – 5 (Luhansk)
• Sarny – 5 (Rivne)
• Zaporizhia – 5 (Zaporizhia)
• Konotop – 4 (Sumy)
• Volodymyr-Volynskyi – 4 (Volyn)
• Berdiansk – 4 (Zaporizhia)
• Uman – 3 (Cherkasy)
• Horlivka – 3 (Donetsk)
• Ivano-Frankivsk – 3 (Ivano-Frankivsk)
• Izium – 3 (Kharkiv)
• Kherson – 3 (Kherson)
• Shepetivka – 3 (Khmelnytskyi)
• Severodonetsk – 3 (Luhansk)
• Poltava – 3 (Poltava)
• Ternopil – 3 (Ternopil)
• Volyn – 3 (Volyn)
• Zhytomyr – 3 (Zhytomyr)
• Feodosiya – 2 (ARC)
• Kamianske – 2 (Dnipropetrovsk)
• Kryvyi Rih – 2 (Dnipropetrovsk)
• Kharkiv – 2 (Kharkiv)
• Nova Kakhovka – 2 (Kherson)
• Oleksandriya – 2 (Kirovohrad)
• Lviv – 2 (Lviv)
• Mykolaiv – 2 (Mykolaiv)
• Balta – 2 (Odesa)
• Kremenchuk – 2 (Poltava)
• Ovruch – 2 (Zhytomyr)
• Dzhankoy – 1 (ARC)
• Kamianets-Podilskyi – 1 (Khmelnytskyi)
• Kropyvnytskyi – 1 (Kirovohrad)
• Rovenky – 1 (Luhansk)
• Sumy – 1 (Sumy)
• Moscow – 1 (Russian Orthodox Church)

References

• Monasteries Search — UOC Synod Commission for Monasteries
• Map of Monasteries — UOC Synod Commission for Monasteries