Abstract
The Context
On August 20, 2024, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed Bill #8371, “On the Protection of the Constitutional Order in the Sphere of Activity of Religious Organizations,” passed by the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s legislature. As a measure of wartime national security its provisions include a ban on the staunchly pro-Putin Russian Orthodox Church. It also requires the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), historically subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate, to sever all ties with its parent church and to prevent its congregations from abetting the Russian war effort against Ukraine.
Recommended Citation
Elliott, Mark R.
(2025)
"Ukrainian Orthodox Church Clerics and Activists Under Suspicion, Under Investigation, Sanctioned, Detained, and/or Convicted for Collaboration with Russia or for Promotion of Russian War Narratives,"
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 45
:
Iss.
6
, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/2693-2229.2664
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol45/iss6/4