Lytvynets A. Sport activity of Christian organizations.

Object – sports activity of religious organizations; aim – the study is to summarize and systematize information about the structure, content, and peculiarities of sports activities of Christian organizations and their significance for the development of sport in the world; methods: theoretical, historical, sociological, statistical; novelty: the data on the peculiarities of the formation and the current state of the functioning of Christian sports organizations according to the confessional affiliation are generalized and the hierarchical levels of their functioning in the world and Ukraine are established, and the ideological and normative principles of the functioning of Christian sports organizations are revealed and systematized, the peculiarities of the organization of their sports competitions and The peculiarities of interrelations and mutual influence of Christian and secular organizations within the limits of the international sports movement are described; results: the theoretical model of interaction of Christian sports organizations with state and public sports management bodies in Ukraine is substantiated; results the research are implemented in the educational process of the Lviv State University of Physical Culture, in particular in the curriculum «History of physical culture», «Olympic education», «Worldview principles of body education», as well as in the theoretical courses of the Youth Educational Center named after them. St. John Bosco in the city of Lviv; the industry – physical education and sports.