Alexander (Drabynko)

Metropolitan Oleksandr (, secular name Oleksandr Mykolayovych Drabynko, ; born 18 March 1977) is a metropolitan bishop of Pereyaslav and Vyshneve of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. His full title is His Eminence Oleksandr, Metropolitan of Pereyeslav-Vyshneve. For a long time Oleksandr Drabynko was a personal secretary of Volodymyr Sabodan.

Biography He was born on 18 March 1977 in Korets, Rivne Oblast, into a family of government officials.

He graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary and later the Kyiv Theological Academy in 2002, becoming a candidate of theology for his dissertation "Eastern Orthodoxy in post-totalitarian Ukraine (milestones of history)" (see "Works section").

In 2003–2005, Drabynko was a coauthor and anchorman of the television program "Pravoslavnyi Mir" (, the Orthodox World), which was produced by the Main Editorial Office of information programs of the UOC-(MP).

At his ordination as bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vyshneve (vicarate of the Diocese of Kyiv), which was led by the primate of the UOC-(MP), Volodymyr (Sabodan), 45 bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church participated.

On 15 December 2018, he joined the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine at the Unification council in Kiev. He was one of only two UOC-MP bishops who joined the OCU (the other was Metropolitan Symeon (Shotatsky)).

Works Eastern Orthodoxy in post-totalitarian Ukraine (milestones of history) ("Православие в посттоталитарной Украине (вехи истории)"). pereyaslav-eparchia.kiev.ua. 1 March 2015 The word of Archimandrite Oleksandr Drabynko at his betrothal to Bishop Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi. www.orthodox.org.ua.