title: List of monasteries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
text: # 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
  
  * Transfiguration Monastery
  
  ### Feodosiya Diocese (2)
  
  * Katerlez St. George's Convent
  * Kyzyltash St. Stephen of Sourozh's Monastery
  
  ### Eparchy of Kyiv (1)
  
  * St. Paisius Velichkovsky's stauropegial Monastery
  
  ### Simferopol Diocese (18)
  
  * Annunciation male metochion
  * Balaclava St. George's Monastery
  * Holy Dormition and St. Anastasia's Monastery
  * Holy Trinity Convent
  * Inkerman St. Clement's Monastery
  * Korsun Icon of the Mother of God female skete
  * Mangup Mountain Annunciation Monastery
  * Nativity of Christ male metochion
  * Protection of the Mother of God Monastery]
  * St. Anastasia the Great Martyr's male skete
  * St. Lazarus of Murom's Monastery
  * St. Luke the Apostle's Monastery
  * St. Nicholas's Monastery
  * St. Sabbas the Sanctifieds's Monastery
  * St. Theodore Stratelates the Great Martyr's Monastery
  * Sts. Cosma and Damian's Monastery
  * Toplovskiy St. Parasceva's Convent
  * Transfiguration male skete
  
  ## Cherkasy Region
  
  There are 11 monasteries.
  
  ### Cherkasy Diocese
  
  * Chyhyryn Holy Trinity Convent
  * Krasnohirskiy Protection of the Mother of God Convent
  * Lebedyn St. Nicholas's Convent
  * Matrona's Holy Trinity Convent
  * Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
  * St. Alexis the Man of God's Monastery
  * St. Onuphrius's Monastery
  * Transfiguration Convent
  
  ### Uman Diocese
  
  * "Hegumenness of Holy Mt. Athos" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * St. George's Convent
  * St. Panteleimon's Convent
  
  ## Chernihiv Region
  
  There are 12 monasteries.
  
  ### Chernigiv Diocese
  
  * Danivka St. George's Convent
  * Domnytsya Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
  * Novhorod-Siverskyy Transfiguration Monastery
  * St. Lawrence of Chernihiv's Convent
  * Yeletskiy Holy Dormition Convent
  
  ### Nizhyn Diocese
  
  * "Healer" Icon of the Mother of God female metochion
  * Annunciation Monastery
  * Entry of the Mother of God Convent
  * Hustynya Holy Trinity Convent
  * Krupytsky St. Nicholas's Convent
  * Meeting Of the Lord female metochion
  * Rykhly Desert St. Nicholas's Monastery
  
  ## Chernivtsi Region
  
  ### Chernivtsi and Bukovina Diocese
  
  * "Gorecha" Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
  * Boyany Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * Buncheny Ascension Monastery
  * Entry of the Mother of God Convent
  * Kolinkivtsi St. Vladimir's Monastery]
  * Kulivtsi Holy Dormition Monastery
  * Myrrh-bearers’ Convent
  * Neporotovo St. Nicholas's Monastery
  * Protection of the Mother of God Convent
  * St. Anne's Convent
  * St. Athanasius the Athonite's Convent
  * St. John of Sochava's Convent
  * St. John the Theologian's Monastery
  * St. Panteleimon's male metochion
  * St. Seraphim's Monastery
  
  ## Dnipropetrivsk Region
  
  ### Dnipropetrovsk Diocese
  
  * "Holy Sign" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * Ascension Convent
  * Holy Trinity Desert Monastery
  * Samara St. Nicholas's Monastery]
  * Tikhvin Convent
  
  ### Kamianske Diocese
  
  * Protection of the Mother of God Convent
  * St. Joseph's Convent
  
  ### Eparchy of Kryvyi Rih
  
  * Protection of the Mother of God Convent
  * St. Vladimir the Priest-Martyr's Monastery
  
  ## Donetsk Region
  
  ### Donetsk Diocese
  
  * "Joy of All Who Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God female skete
  * All Saints' male skete
  * Holy Dormition female skete
  * Iberian Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * Kasperivska Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * St. Basil's Monastery
  * St. George's male skete
  * St. John of Shanghai's male skete
  * St. Nicholas's Convent
  * Sts. Antony and Theodosius of the Caves' male skete
  * Svyatohirsk Holy Dormition Lavra
  * Turkowice Icon of the Mother of God female skete]
  
  ### Horlivka Diocese
  
  * Protection Mother of God female skete
  * St. Sergius of Radonezh's Convent
  * St. Stephen's Convent]
  
  ## Ivano-Frankivsk Region
  
  ### Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese
  
  * Dukonya Holy Trinity Monastery
  * Protection of the Mother of God Convent
  * Uhornyky St. Michael the Archangel's Monastery]
  
  ## Kharkiv Region
  
  ### Izium Diocese
  
  * Nativity of St. John the Forerunner male skete
  * Pisky Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Sts. Boris and Gleb's Convent
  
  ### Kharkiv Diocese
  
  * Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
  * St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
  
  ## Kherson Region
  
  ### Kherson Diocese
  
  * Annunciation Convent
  * Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
  * St. Nicholas's female skete
  
  ### Nova Kakhovka Diocese
  
  * Bizyukiv St. Gregory's Monastery
  * Korsun Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  
  ## Khmelnytskyy Region
  
  ### Kamianets-Podilskyi Diocese
  
  * Holy Trinity Convent
  
  ### Khmelnytskyi Diocese
  
  * "Life-Bearing Well" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * Exaltation of Cross Monastery
  * St. John the Forerunner's Monastery
  * St. Michael the Archangel's female skete
  * Transfiguration Convent
  
  ### Shepetivka Diocese
  
  * Horodyshche Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
  * St. Alexander Nevsky's Convent
  * St. Anne's Convent
  
  ## Kirovohrad Region
  
  ### Kropyvnytskyi Diocese
  
  * St. Elizabeth's Monastery
  
  ### Oleksandriya Diocese
  
  * Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Theophany Convent
  
  ## Kyiv Region
  
  ### Bila Tserkva Diocese
  
  * Rzhyshchiv Transfiguration Monastery
  * St. Barbara the Great Martyr's Convent
  * St. Mary Magdalene the-Equal-to-the-Apostles' Convent
  * St. Seraphim's Monastery
  * Sts. Regal Martyrs' Convent
  
  ### Boryspil Diocese
  
  * "Life-Bearing Well" Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Ascension Monastery
  * Holy Dormition Convent
  * St. Michael the Archangel's Monastery
  * Transfiguration Monastery
  
  ### Kyiv Diocese
  
  * "Comfort and Consolation" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * "Kyiv Brotherhood" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * "Listener" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * Annunciation Monastery
  * Deposition of Robe of the Mother of God in Blachernae Monastery
  * Flor’s Ascension Convent
  * Holosiyive Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Holy Trinity and St. Jonah's Monastery
  * Kytayeve Holy Trinity Monastery
  * Kyiv Entry of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Kyiv Holy Dormition Caves Lavra
  * Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Tserkovshchina Tract Monastery
  * Protection of the Mother of God Convent
  * St. Alexander of Rome the Martyr's male skete
  * St. Cyril's Monastery
  * St. Michael's stauropegial male metochion
  * St. Nicholas's female skete
  * St. Olga the-Equal-to-the-Apostles' Convent
  * St. Panteleimon's Convent
  * Tikhvin St. Nicholas's Convent
  * Tithe Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery
  * Transfiguration Monastery
  * Transfiguration Convent
  * Ven. Anastasia of Kyiv's Convent
  * Zvirynets St. Michael the Archangel's Monastery
  
  ## Luhansk Region
  
  ### Donetsk Diocese
  
  * St. Theodosius of Chernihiv's male skete
  
  ### Luhansk Diocese
  
  * Ascension Monastery
  * Iberian Icon of the Mother of God female community]
  * Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Conven
  * St. John the Forerunner's Monastery
  * St. Olga the Regal Martyr's Convent
  
  ### Rovenky Diocese
  
  * St. Andrew's Monastery
  
  ### Severodonetsk Diocese
  
  * St. Elijah's Monastery
  * St. Sergius of Radonezh's Monastery
  * Starobilsk "Joy of All Who Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  
  ## Lviv Region
  
  ### Lviv Diocese
  
  * St. Onuphrius's Monastery]
  * Transfiguration Convent
  
  ## Mykolayiv Region
  
  ### Mykolaiv Diocese
  
  * Pelahiyivka St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
  * Sts. Constantine and Helen's Monastery
  
  ## Odesa Region
  
  ### Balta Diocese
  
  * "Joy of All Who Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * Protection of the Mother of God and Balta St. Theodosius Monastery
  
  ### Odesa Diocese
  
  * "Pantanassa" Icon of the Mother of God male skete
  * Ascension female skete
  * Borysivka Transfiguration Convent
  * Iberian Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Nativity of Christ male skete
  * Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
  * Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God female skete
  * Odesa Holy Dormition Monastery
  * Protection of the Mother of God male skete
  * St. Elijah's Monastery
  * St. John the Forerunner's male skete
  * St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
  * St. Nicholas's Monastery
  * St. Panteleimon's Monastery
  * Sts. Constantine and Helen's Monastery]
  * Teplodar Resurrection Convent
  
  ## Poltava Region
  
  ### Kremenchuk Diocese
  
  * Kozelshchyna Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
  * Pototsky Sts. Antony and Theodosius's Monastery
  
  ### Poltava Diocese
  
  * Exaltation of Cross Convent
  * Mhar Transfiguration Monastery
  * Velyki Budyshcha Holy Trinity Convent
  
  ## Rivne Region
  
  ### Moscow Diocese
  
  * Korets Holy Trinity Stauropegial Convent
  
  ### Rivne Diocese
  
  * Annunciation Convent
  * Ascension female skete
  * Derman Holy Trinity Convent
  * Horodok St. Nicholas's Convent
  * Hoshcha Protection of the Mother of God Convent
  * Holy Dormition Monastery
  * Iberian Icon of the Mother of God Convent]
  * Mezhyrich Holy Trinity Monastery
  * Myrrh-bearers’ female skete
  * Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
  * St. Anne's female skete
  * St. Barbara the Great Martyr's male skete
  * St. George's female metochion
  * The Synaxis of Twelve Apostles female skete
  
  ### Sarny Diocese
  
  * "Life-Bearing Well" Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Iberian Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * Protection of the Mother of God Monastery]
  * Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Volyn Icon of the Mother of God Convent]
  
  ## Sumy Region
  
  ### Kyiv Diocese
  
  * Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Glinskaya Pustyn stauropegial Monastery
  
  ### Konotop Diocese
  
  * Molchansky Caves Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
  * Sofronievo-Molchansky Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery
  * St. Charalampias the Priest-Martyr's Convent
  * St. Nicholas's female metochion
  
  ### Sumy Diocese
  
  * Okhtyrka Holy Trinity Monastery
  
  ## Ternopil Region
  
  ### Kyiv Diocese
  
  * Pochayiv Holy Dormition Lavra
  
  ### Ternopil Diocese
  
  * Kremenets Theophany Convent
  * Pochayiv Holy Spirit Monastery
  * Zahaytsi St. John the Almoner's Monastery
  
  ## Vinnytsa Region
  
  ### Kyiv Diocese
  
  * Holy Trinity Stauropegial Convent
  * Pochayiv Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial female skete
  
  ### Mohyliv-Podilskyi Diocese
  
  * Beheading of St. John 's Monastery
  * St. Nicholas's Monastery
  * Transfiguration Monastery
  * Holy Dormition Monastery
  * St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
  * Bar Icon of the Mother of God Convent
  * Brayiliv Holy Trinity Convent
  * Lemeshivka St. John the Theologian's Monastery
  
  ## Volyn Region
  
  ### Kyiv Diocese (2)
  
  * St. Alexander Nevsky's stauropegial Convent
  * Zymne Svytohirsky Holy Dormition stauropegial Convent
  
  ### Volodymyr-Volynsk Diocese
  
  * Myltsi St. Nicholas's Monastery
  * Nyzkynychi Holy Dormition Monastery
  * St. John the Forerunner's male skete
  * Svityaz Sts. Peter and Paul's Monastery
  
  ### Volyn Diocese
  
  * Exaltation of Cross Monastery
  * Mikhnivka Meeting of the Lord Convent
  * Starosilye Holy Trinity Convent
  
  ## Zakarpattya Region
  
  ### Khust Diocese
  
  * "Unexpected Joy" Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Ascension Convent
  * Holy Trinity Convent
  * Holy Trinity Monastery
  * Hrusheve St. Michael the Archangel's Monastery
  * Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Convent
  * Protection of the Mother of God male skete]
  * St. Elijah's Monastery
  * St. Elijah's male skete
  * St. George's Monastery
  * St. John the Forerunner's Monastery (Bedevlya)
  * St. John the Forerunner's Monastery (Roztoky)
  * St. John the Theologian's Convent
  * St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
  * St. Nicholas's Monastery
  * St. Panteleimon's Monastery
  * St. Panteleimon's female skete
  * St. Seraphim's Convent
  * St. Sergius of Radonezh's Convent
  * St. Simeon's Monastery
  * St. Stephen's Monastery
  * Transfiguration Monastery
  * Uhlya Holy Dormition Convent
  
  ### Mukachevo Diocese
  
  * Entry of the Mother of God Convent
  * Holy Dormition Convent
  * Holy Dormition Monastery
  * Kazan Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Krasnohirskiy All Saints' Monastery
  * Mukachevo St. Nicholas's Convent
  * Pochayiv Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Protection of the Mother of God male skete
  * Protection of the Mother of God Monastery
  * Resurrection Monastery
  * St. George's Monastery]
  * St. John the Forerunner's Convent
  * St. John the Theologian's Monastery
  * St. Mary Magdalene the-Equal-to-the-Apostles's Convent
  * St. Panteleimon's Monastery
  * St. Seraphim's Convent
  * St. Vladimir the-Equal-to-the-Apostles' Monastery
  * Sts. Cyril and Methodius's Convent
  
  ## Zaporizhia Region
  
  ### Berdyansk Diocese
  
  * Holy Dormition Convent
  * St. Ambrose of Optina's Monastery
  * St. Michael the Archangel's Convent
  * St. Seraphim's Convent
  
  ### Zaporizhia Diocese
  
  * St. Elizabeth's Convent
  * St. John the Theologian's Convent
  * St. Nicholas's Convent
  * St. Sabbas the Sanctified's Monastery
  * Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God female skete
  
  ## Zhytomyr Region
  
  ### Kyiv Diocese
  
  * "Assuage My Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial Convent
  * Athos Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial Convent
  * Horodnytsya St. George's stauropegial Monastery
  * Iberian Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial female skete]
  * St. John the Russian's stauropegial male metochion
  * St. Silvanus the Athonite's stauropegial male skete
  * Zhytomyr St. Anastasia of Rome's stauropegial Convent
  
  ### Ovruch Diocese
  
  * Kazan Icon of the Mother of God Monastery
  * St. Basil's Convent
  
  ### Zhytomyr Diocese
  
  * Chervone Nativity of Christ Convent
  * Holy Mandylion Protection Convent
  * Tryhirya Transfiguration Monastery
  
  ## Sub-list of stauropegial monasteries
  
  * Korets Holy Trinity Stauropegial Convent, belongs directly to the Russian Orthodox Church
  * St. Paisius Velichkovsky's stauropegial Monastery (Autonomous Republic of Crimea)
  * Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Glinskaya Pustyn stauropegial Monastery (Sumy Oblast)
  * Pochayiv Holy Dormition Lavra (Ternopil Oblast)
  * Holy Trinity Stauropegial Convent (Vinnytsia Oblast)
  * Pochayiv Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial female skete (Vinnytsia Oblast)
  * St. Alexander Nevsky's stauropegial Convent (Volyn Oblast)
  * Zymne Svytohirsky Holy Dormition stauropegial Convent (Volyn Oblast)
  * "Assuage My Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial Convent (Zhytomyr Oblast)
  * Athos Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial Convent (Zhytomyr Oblast)
  * Horodnytsya St. George's stauropegial Monastery (Zhytomyr Oblast)
  * Iberian Icon of the Mother of God stauropegial female skete] (Zhytomyr Oblast)
  * St. John the Russian's stauropegial male metochion (Zhytomyr Oblast)
  * St. Silvanus the Athonite's stauropegial male skete (Zhytomyr Oblast)
  * Zhytomyr St. Anastasia of Rome's stauropegial Convent (Zhytomyr Oblast)
  
  ## Statistics
  
  ### Monasteries by region
  
  * 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)
  