Ukraine revokes citizenship of Orthodox leader
July 07, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: The government of Ukraine has revoked the citizenship of Metropolitan Onufriy, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).
Government officials said they had discovered that Metropolitan Onufriy acquired Russian citizenship in 2002. The government charged that the UOC leader “maintains ties to the Moscow patriarchate and deliberately opposed the acquisition of canonical independence of the Ukrainian Church from the Moscow Patriarchate, whose representatives openly support Russian aggression against Ukraine.”
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