The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing on the appeals filed by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church regarding GESS

The Supreme Court has completed its preparatory proceedings and scheduled the appeals in the case involving the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and the Kiev Metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to be heard through written proceedings. According to the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience (GESS), citing the relevant decision, the hearing will take place at the premises of the Administrative Court of Cassation, which is part of the Supreme Court.

As indicated by the GESS, by decisions of the Supreme Court, sitting as a panel of judges of the Administrative Court of Cassation, dated October 15, 2026, the preparatory proceedings were concluded and Case No. 855/11/25 (Proceedings Nos. A/990/21/26 and A/990/22/26) for appellate review.

The appeals will be considered through written proceedings, without an oral hearing. The announcement also specifies that the hearing is scheduled to take place at the premises of the Administrative Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court at the following address: 8 Kniaziv Ostrozhskykh St., Bldg. 5, Kyiv.

The materials published by GESS note that copies of the relevant Supreme Court rulings dated October 15, 2026, are attached.