Baptists

===Baptist origins in Ukraine===
{{See also|Baptists in Ukraine}}

The Baptist churches in Ukraine were preceded by the German Anabaptist and [[Mennonites|Mennonite]] communities, who had been living in southern Ukraine since the 16th century, and who practiced adult believer's baptism.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.risu.org.ua/eng/major.religions/baptists |title= RISU / English / Major Religions / Baptists |access-date= 20 April 2005 |archive-url= http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20050420001102/http://www.risu.org.ua/eng/major.religions/baptists/ |archive-date=20 April 2005 |url-status = dead }}</ref> The first Baptist baptism (adult baptism by full immersion) in Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river [[Inhul]] in the Yelizavetgrad region (now [[Kropyvnytskyi]] region), in a [[History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union|German settlement]]. In 1867, the first Baptist communities were organized in that area. From there, the Baptist movement spread across the south of Ukraine and then to other regions as well. 

One of the first Baptist communities was registered in [[Kyiv]] in 1907, and in 1908 the First All-[[Russian Empire|Russian]] Convention of Baptists was held there, as Ukraine was still controlled by the Russian Empire. The All-Russian Union of Baptists was established in Yekaterinoslav (now [[Dnipro]]) in southern Ukraine. At the end of the 19th century, there were between 100,000 and 300,000 Baptists in Ukraine.<ref>[http://ecbua.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=29 History of the AUC ECB] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805104147/http://ecbua.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=29 |date=5 August 2016 }} Всеукраїнський Союз Церков Євангельських Християн-Баптистів web site {{in lang|uk}}</ref> An independent All-Ukrainian Baptist Union of Ukraine was established during the [[Ukrainian People's Republic|brief period of Ukraine's independence]] in early 20th-century and once again after the fall of the Soviet Union, the largest of which is currently known as the [[Evangelical Baptist Union of Ukraine]].