Metropolitan Mefodiy (Kudryakov)
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Metropolitan Mefodiy (Kudriakov)
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11 March 1949 Kopychyntsi, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | February 24, 2015 (aged 65) Kiev, Ukraine |
Metropolitan Mefodiy (born Valeriy Andriyovich Kudryakov, Ukrainian: Валерій Андрійович Кудряков; 11 March 1949 – 24 February 2015, Kyiv, Ukraine) was the Primate of the , Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine.
Valeriy Kudryakov was born in Kopychyntsi, Husiatyn Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.
In 1969–71 he was in the Soviet Army. Later, in 1977–81 he studied at the Moscow Theological Seminary.
On June 27, 1981 Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil Nicholas (Yurik) ordained Kudryakov to be a celib deacon, and on the next day he was ordained as a priest.
In 1985 Valeriy Kudriakov appointed him to the position of Dean in the Ternopil region. In 1986 he entered the extramural department of the Moscow Theological Academy in Zagorsk.
In 1987 by the decree of his eparchial bishop, Metropolitan Nykodym (Rusnak), Valeriy Kudriakov as a supporter of autocephalous status of the Ukrainian Church was banned from undertaking any church activity and performing any priestly function in public.
In 1989 the eparchial bishop lifted the ban and Valeriy Kudriakov again was listed among the clergy of the Lviv and Ternopil diocese.
In 1990 he joined the . In 1993 he was tonsured with the name Methodius (after the Apostle Methodius, Slavonic teacher (869)). In 1995 he was appointed a chancellor of the Office of His Holiness Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine Volodymyr (1993–95).
On June 17, 1995 Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine Volodymyr and Bishop of Donetsk and Lugansk Iziaslav (Cargo) ordained Mefodiy bishop of Khmelnitsky and Kamenetz-Podolsk.
On October 19, 1995, after the death of Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine Volodymyr, bishop Mefodiy confessed the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. In 1997 he was ordained archbishop, and in 1999, metropolitan of Ternopil and Podil. His consecration was performed by Patriarch Volodomyr (Romaniuk) and bishop Izyaslav of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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