Volodymyr Zabolotnyi (priest)

Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Zabolotnyi (Володимир Володимирович Заболотний; born 15 September 1960, Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast ) is a Ukrainian actor, public and religious figure, mitred priest (2023). Member of the Ternopil City Council (1990). He is the son of Mariia Potykevych-Zabolotna.

Biography
Zabolotnyi graduated from the Solomiia Krushelnytska Ternopil Music College (1983) and the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Catechetical Institute (1996).

He worked as an actor, deputy director (until 1991) of the Ternopil Regional Music and Drama Theater.

In 1993 he was ordained a priest. Zabolotnyi served in the parishes of the Ternopil Raion.

Organizer (1998) and editor of the newspaper "Blahovist" of the Zalozetsky Deanery of the Ternopil Raion.

Since 2007, he has been 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.

Since December 2019, he has been an advisor to the Pastoral Council of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC.

He is active in the editorial board of the publication "Buchach Diocese of the UGCC. Parishes, monasteries, temples. Shematism".

Member of the jury of the second festival of sacred music choirs of the Buchach Diocese of the UGCC "God, Save Ukraine" (2019).

Awards

 * Badge "Pride of Ternopil" (11 July 2018)
 * Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (21 December 2018)