Serhii Shumylo

Serhii Viktorovych Shumylo (Ukrainian: Сергій Вікторович Шумило; born 8 June 1976) is an historian, specialist in religious studies, journalist and public figure.

[11] For a long time, he has been researching the history of relations between Ukraine and the Holy Mount Athos, the influence of the Athonite heritage on Ukrainian spiritual culture and tradition.

[12] He discovered and published little-known letters of St Paisius Velichkovsky in the archives, as well as documents on charitable activities towards Athos monasteries by Ukrainian hetmans and representatives of Cossack families of the 17th and 18th centuries.

[14][11] In 2022, he was a Visiting Fellow at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany),[15] as well as in École Pratique des Hautes Études l PSL in Paris (France).

[17][18] From January 2023, he was appointed Head of the Branch of the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in Exeter (UK).

[21] He has organized more than 20 international scientific conferences on the spiritual and cultural heritage of Mount Athos and the history of the Church in Ukraine (including with the support of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris, France), the Keston Institute in Oxford (UK), Columbia University (USA), the World Council of Churches (Geneva, Switzerland) and other international organizations).

For a long time, he was engaged in research activities abroad (Great Britain, France, Greece, Germany, Italy), held personal lectures, exhibitions and presentations on the Ukrainian heritage of Mount Athos in more than ten European countries (Athens, Paris, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Rome, Venice, Milan, Naples, Strasbourg, Geneva, Brussels, Hamburg, Warsaw, Prague, Jassy and others).

Participated in advising British medical forensic experts who are collecting testimonies and evidence of crimes committed by the Russian military in Ukraine to be submitted to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.