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Volodymyr Zabolotnyi (priest)
Ukrainian actor, public and religious figure (born 1960) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Zabolotnyi (Ukrainian: Володимир Володимирович Заболотний; born 15 September 1960, Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast[1]) is a Ukrainian actor, public and religious figure, and mitred priest (2023).[2] He was a member of the Ternopil City Council (1990).[3]
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Early life
He is the son of Mariia Potykevych-Zabolotna.[3] Zabolotnyi graduated from the Solomiia Krushelnytska Ternopil Music College (1983) and the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Catechetical Institute (1996).[3]
Career
He worked as an actor and deputy director (until 1991) of the Ternopil Regional Music and Drama Theater.[3]
In 1993 he was ordained. Zabolotnyi served in the parishes of the Ternopil Raion.[3]
He was organizer (1998) and editor of the newspaper Blahovist of the Zalozetsky Deanery of the Ternopil Raion.[3]
In 2007 he became a priest of the Buchach Eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He was responsible for the construction of the first church in Europe on the territory of a pre-trial detention center.[3]
In December 2019, he became an advisor to the Pastoral Council of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC.[4]
He is active in the editorial board of the publication Buchach Diocese of the UGCC. Parishes, monasteries, temples. Shematism.[5]
He was a member of the jury of the second festival of sacred music choirs of the Buchach Diocese of the UGCC "God, Save Ukraine" (2019).[6]
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