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# DESS: The number of communities joining OCU in 2024 is half of last year’s
- URL: https://uoj.news/news/84124-dess-the-number-of-communities-joining-ocu-in-2024-is-half-of-last-years/
- Published: 2025-01-18T13:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T16:11:18.000Z
- Description: Over a year, 232 communities of the UOC changed their jurisdiction.
- Author: News
- Tags: #Category: News, State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, OCU, UOC

According to the [State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience (DESS)](https://uoj.news/tag/state-service-of-ukraine-for-ethnopolitics-and-freedom-of-conscience/), in 2024, 232 religious communities moved from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the OCU. [This information was published by religious scholar Andriy Smirnov](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164723764273146&set=a.10153601608858146), who made such a request to DESS.

In total, from 2022 to 2024, 1,200 parishes joined the OCU. According to DESS, in 2022, 496 communities changed their canonical affiliation, and in 2023 – 471.

![DESS: The number of communities joining OCU in 2024 is half of last year’s фото 1](https://uoj.news/content/images/2025/01/84124-dess-the-number-of-communities-joining-ocu-in-2024-is-half-of-last-years-body-1-e7729e31bdd5.jpg)

As reported by the UOJ, the [media showed the conditions in which persecuted Volyn communities have to pray](https://uoj.news/news/84116-media-shows-conditions-in-which-persecuted-communities-of-voyn-have-to-pray/).