Ukrainian hierarch suing President Zelensky over sanctions

Kiev, March 7, 2023

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A second hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has filed a lawsuit against the Ukrainian government, with President Zelensky specifically named as the defendant.

This time, His Eminence Archbishop Paisy (Shinkarev) of Konstantinov, vicar of the Gorlovka Diocese, filed a lawsuit over the presidential decree that implemented the decision of the National Security Defense Council to impose sanctions on individual hierarchs and clerics of the Ukrainian Church, reports the Union of Orthodox Journalists, with reference to the site of the Judicial Branch of the Ukrainian government.

The case, which lists President Zelensky as defendant, aims to “declare illegal and cancel Presidential Decree No. 863/2022 of 11.12.2022.”

Abp. Paisy was among the seven who were sanctioned for 5 years on December 12. The sanctions include various limitations related to finances and traveling. A week prior, Pres. Zelensky had sanctioned nine hierarchs and a deacon.

The Gorlovka Diocese is among those that decided to continue to commemorate Patriarch Kirill in the Divine services even after the UOC changed its statutes at the Council in May.

In January, His Eminence Metropolitan Melety of Chernivtsi and Bukovina brought a suit against the President concerning his order from December 28 that deprived 13 hierarchs of their Ukrainian citizenship.

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3/7/2023

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