Kosonotsky, Volodymyr [Косоноцький, Володимир; Kosonoc'kyj], b 21 September 1886 in Dub, Tomaszów Lubelski county, Lublin gubernia, d 24 April 1942 in Kholm. Orthodox church and community leader. A graduate of the law faculty at Kyiv University (1910), he served to 1914 as an examining judge in Uman. From 1922 to 1934 he was the secretary of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Representation in Warsaw and a member of the Ukrainian Church Committee. In 1939 he became active in the Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Kholm region, and played an important role in establishing a separate Kholm and Podlachia eparchy (see Kholm eparchy). He served as director of the eparchy’s press department and edited Kholms’kyi pravoslavno-narodnii kalendar (1941–2) and other eparchial publications. To refute Polish claims to various churches and monasteries held by the Orthodox church he wrote Protses za pravoslavni tserkvy (Legal Action on Behalf of Orthodox Churches, 1930).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]