By Decree No. 898/2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky suspended the citizenship of 13 clergymen of the UOC MP.
LB.ua writes about this with reference to sources, indicating that the decree is not published on the presidentʼs website, as it contains personal information.
The decree includes:
- Anatoliy Ivanovych Yeletskih — Metropolitan Ionaphan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, who was charged with treason by the SBU;
- Serhiy Leonidovych Anitsou — a vicar of the Tulchyna Diocese, Bishop Serhiy Ladyzhynskyi;
- Volodymyr Semenovych Vinichenko — archbishop of Novoazovsky Varsonofiy (Donetsk diocese);
- Viktor Anatoliyovych Hradomskyi — Archpriest Victor, abbot of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Odesa Diocese);
- Mykola Mykolayovych Donenko — a vicar bishop, Bishop Nestor of Yalta;
- Valentyn Volodymyrovych Yehorenko — Metropolitan Meletii of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna, who was searched by the SBU and found Russian passports;
- Oleksii Oleksandrovich Maslenikov — Metropolitan Iosyf of Rome and Buryn;
- Ivan Petrovych Seredniy — Metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlograd;
- Andriy Petrovych Skobiola — archbishop of Volnova, vicar of the Donetsk diocese, abbot of the Sviatavasiliv monastery;
- Oleksandr Borysovych Taranov — Archbishop Arkady of Rovenkiv and Sverdlovsk, who fled to Russia;
- Rostislav Pylypovych Shvets — Metropolitan Lazar of Simferopol and Crimea;
- Viktor Serhiyovych Shynkarev — Archbishop Paisius of Konstantinov;
- Ihor Fedorovych Yakovenko — Metropolitan of Sviatohirskyi, Vicar of the Donetsk Diocese, Vicar of the Holy Dormition Sviatohirskyi Lavra.
Now they can be deported.
- On December 1, 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine instructed the government to submit a draft law to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) to ban the activities of religious organizations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine.
- At the end of November, the SBU conducted a series of searches in churches, monasteries and laurels of the UOC MP, in particular in Kyiv-Pechersk. After the presidentʼs statement, law enforcement officers began actively conducting a series of searches across the country.
- On December 9, a committee of the Verkhovna Rada recommended the adoption of a draft law prohibiting the activity of religious organizations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine.