Metropolitan Theodosiy speaks about details of his guilty verdict

Metropolitan Theodosiy. Photo: Cherkasy Eparchy

Metropolitan Theodosiy of Cherkasy and Kaniv told the UOJ about the details of the guilty verdict handed down by the Prydniprovskyi District Court of Cherkasy in a criminal case filed at the request of an OCU cleric, Zasanskyi.

According to the hierarch, the court imposed the maximum fine stipulated by Article 161 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code – 500 non-taxable minimum incomes – along with additional financial compensation for expert examinations carried out during the case.

Yet, as the metropolitan stresses, this is not the main issue. “What matters most here is the fact of a criminal conviction. From now on, all my other courts will be required to aggravate their rulings against me, treating me as a repeat offender. That was precisely the goal of the first court – and it has achieved it,” Metropolitan Theodosiy stated.

As a reminder, the court delivered a guilty verdict against Metropolitan Theodosiy over a sermon delivered in February 2024, in which the hierarch spoke about the seizure of the Nativity of the Theotokos women’s monastery by a group of OCU militants.

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