The community of Ukrainian Orthodox Church is not allowed to build a church, despite approval from the court

February 18, 2017 – The Saint-Nicholas community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) in the village of Veliky Omelyanik, despite a won lawsuit, has received additional administrative problems. Representatives from the Volyn Oblast’s architectural-construction inspection department have disbursed funds for further judicial proceedings, despite the expiry of the legal payment term. The case was transferred to the Lvov Administrative Appeals Court for further decision.

According to the head of the Saint-Nicholas community, the Hieromonk Ilya Vishnevsky, the analysis of the case in the Appeals Court will take place in March. The community, after winning the case in October 2016, has received a notice that the decision of the Volyn administrative tribunal has entered into force, since the defendant, while asking for an appeal, has not paid his legal fees.

Once the community received the court decision, they attempted to restore the paperwork for the building of the church. It is to be reminded that the Municipal council has declined its own permission on the building of a new UOC-MP church on the property, located in the village Veliky Omelyanik. The community of the UOC-MP has opened a lawsuit and won the case.

In order to restore the paperwork after winning in court, the community addressed itself to the Center of administrative services. They were surprisingly declined twice with claims of minor errors inside – the same ones that were unquestionably accepted prior to creating administrative barriers to the UOC-MP for the building of the church foundation.

Earlier, the Ukrainian Orthodox Journalists (UOJ) reported that the UOC-MP community of Veliky Omelyanik has won the lawsuit for the permission of building a cathedral.

Sources

http://uoj.org.ua/novosti/sobytiya/obshchine-upts-na-volyni-ne-dayut-stroit-khram-nesmotrya-na-razreshenie-suda