| Volodymyr Zabolotnyi | |
| Birth Name: | Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Zabolotnyi |
| Birth Date: | 15 September 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast |
| Alma Mater: | Solomiia Krushelnytska Ternopil Music College, Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Catechetical Institute |
Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Zabolotnyi (uk|Володимир Володимирович Заболотний; born 15 September 1960, Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast[1]) is a Ukrainian actor, public and religious figure, mitred priest (2023).[2] Member of the Ternopil City Council (1990). He is the son of Mariia Potykevych-Zabolotna.
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.[3]
He is active in the editorial board of the publication "Buchach Diocese of the UGCC. Parishes, monasteries, temples. Shematism".[4]
Member of the jury of the second festival of sacred music choirs of the Buchach Diocese of the UGCC "God, Save Ukraine" (2019).[5]