History of Evangelical Christian Baptists in Ukraine (Mid-19th Century to 1929)

Authors

Fedir Prodanyuk, Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, UkraineFollow
Hnat Mierienkov, National Pedagogical Dragomanov UniversityFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8283-6332

Abstract

This article reviews the history of Evangelical Baptists in Ukraine from the middle of the 19th century to 1929. The article presents the development of Ukrainian Baptists from a local group to a large-scale organization that takes an active part in social service, has the most followers in Ukraine among Protestants, and is inextricably linked with the history of Ukrainian society. Of particular note is the fact that the Baptists spread differently in various areas and formed separate associations, which for some time existed independently of each other. For a while, the existence of Evangelical Baptists in Ukraine was not mentioned as an official religion, Orthodoxy perceived them as something foreign, and only after Ukraine's independence did Baptism begin to be seriously studied by scholars.

Recommended Citation

Prodanyuk, Fedir and Mierienkov, Hnat (2021) "History of Evangelical Christian Baptists in Ukraine (Mid-19th Century to 1929)," Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 41 : Iss. 4 , Article 6.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol41/iss4/6