Names of bishops whom Zelenskyy deprived of citizenship are known

Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Photo: wiki2.org

The LB.ua edition has published a complete list of UOC clergymen, whom the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy deprived of citizenship by his decree No. 898/2022 of December 28, 2022.

The list of representatives of the UOC includes hierarchs of the Donetsk, Crimean, Romny dioceses, as well as of Odessa and Chernivtsi-Bukovyna.

LB.ua learned about this from its own sources.

The list of UOC clergy deprived of citizenship is as follows:

Anatoly Yeletskikh – Metropolitan Jonathan of Tulchyn and Bratslav;

Serhiy Anitsoy – Vicar of the Tulchyn Eparchy, Bishop Serhiy of Ladyzhyn;

Volodymyr Vinichenko – Archbishop Varsonofy of Novoazovsk (Donetsk diocese);

Viktor Hradomsky – Archpriest Viktor, rector of the Alexander Nevsky Church (Odessa diocese);

Mykolai Donenko – Vicar Bishop, Bishop Nestor of Yalta;

Valentyn Yehorenko – Metropolitan Meletiy of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna;

Oleksiy Maslennikov – Metropolitan Joseph of Romny and Buryn (Romny diocese);

Ivan Seredny – Metropolitan Iriney of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad;

Andriy Skobiola – Archbishop Amvrosiy of Volnovakha, vicar of the Donetsk diocese;

Oleksandr Taranov – Archbishop Arkadiy of Rovenky and Sverdlovsk;

Rostyslav Shvets – Metropolitan Lazar of Simferopol and Crimea;

Viktor Shinkarev – Archbishop Paisiy of Konstantynivka;

Ihor Yakovenko – Metropolitan Arseniy of Sviatogorsk, vicar of the Donetsk diocese, vicar of the Holy Dormition Sviatogorsk Lavra.

According to LB.ua, the possibility of introducing similar measures against six more people is currently being considered.

As previously reported by the UOJ, Zelenskyy stripped 13 clergymen of the UOC of citizenship.

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