Onuphrius (Berezovsky)

Metropolitan Onufriy (Onuphrius, secular name Orest Volodymyrovych Berezovsky, Ukrainian: Орест Володимирович Березовський, Russian: Орест Владимирович Березовский; 5 November 1944, Korytne, Chernivtsi Oblast) is the current head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).

He was born 5 November 1944 in Chernivtsi Oblast as the son of a priest. In 1961 he graduated from high school. From 1962 to 1964 he studied at the Chernivtsi technical school, after which he worked in construction organizations in Chernivtsi.

In 1966, he joined the technical faculty of the Chernivtsi University, and in 1969, after the third year, entered in the second class of the Moscow Theological Seminary; the following year, he became part of the brotherhood of the Trinity Sergius Laura.

March 18, 1971 he was tonsured a monk with name Onufriy, in honor of St. Onuphrius the Great. June 20, 1971 he was ordained a hierodeacon. May 29, 1972 ordained a hieromonk.

After 18 years, Archimandrite Onufriy went back to the Ukraine as the superior of the Pochayiv Lavra of the Holy Assumption. Two years later, he became Bishop of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna, serving this diocese for 23 years.

In 1988 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy as a candidate in theology.

On July 20, 1988, he was appointed Father-Superior of the Dormition Pochayiv Lavra.

On December 9, 1990, he was consecrated Bishop of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna at the St Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kiev.

January 22, 1992 refused to sign the appeal of the bishop meeting of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II with the requirement to provide autocephalous Church in Ukraine, and on January 23 he was transferred by Metropolitan Philaret (Denysenko) to Ivano-Frankivsk diocese.

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