Hilarion (Rudnyk)

Metropolitan Ilarion (, secular name Roman Mykolayovych Rudnyk, ; February 14, 1972, Lviv, Ukrainian SSR) is the metropolitan of the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada. Prior to his election to metropolitan, he was bishop of Edmonton and the Western eparchy.

Youth & education He undertook his primary, secondary school in Lviv in Soviet Ukraine.

After taking his entrance exams, he was admitted to the second year at the Kyiv Theological Seminary from which he graduated in 1992, a year after Ukraine declared its independence from the USSR. At the recommendation of Archbishop Vsevolod (Maidansky) of Scopelos, and with the blessing of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Roman Rudnyk then moved to Greece to continue his theological studies at the theological faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which he graduated in 1997. On December 21 of same year he ordained him to the rank of hierodeacon. On September 14, 2000 he ordained him to the rank of hieromonk.