Ioan (Bodnarchuk)
| Metropolitan Ioann (Bodnarchuk) | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 April 1929 Ivane-Puste, Second Polish Republic, present-day Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine |
| Died | 9 November 1994 (aged 65) Yablunivka, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine |
Metropolitan Ioann (secular name Vasyl Mykolayovych Bodnarchuk, Ukrainian: Василь Миколайович Боднарчук, Russian: Василий Николаевич Боднарчук; 12 April 1929 – 9 November 1994) was an Orthodox hierarch born in the Ternopil area of Western Ukraine, which at that time was a territory of Poland. During his life he was successively bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church (1977–1989), in the (1989–1992) and in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate (1992–1994).
Though he was born into a family of Greek-Catholics, he converted to Orthodoxy early in his childhood.
In 1948, he was arrested for his pro-Ukrainian nationalistic rhetoric and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in the copper mines of Steplag Karaganda. His family was deported to Kazakhstan, where they lived until 1953. Later that year he was released on amnesty.
In 1956, he was accepted into the Leningrad Theological Seminary and in 1958 he became a deacon. After graduating the Seminary in 1960, he was accepted into the Leningrad Theological Academy and in 1961 he became a priest. In 1964 he graduated the Academy with a PhD in Divinity. He was sent to the Lviv and Ternopil diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate. He served as a priest in the village of Striivka, Zbarazhskiy which is in the Ternopil region. In 1968 he served in a parish in the Lviv region.
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