Simon (Shostatskyi)

Metropolitan Symeon (also romanized Simeon; born Volodymyr Ivanovych Shostatsky, , ) is a bishop of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and a member of its Holy Synod. He was born on November 3, 1962, in the village of Raykivtsi in the Khmelnytsky district of the Khmelnytsky region in Ukraine Together with Metropolitan Alexander Drabynko of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, he joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. He had previously been a member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), where in 1996, he was consecrated as the Metropolitan Bishop of Vinnytsia and Bar.

Life Volodymyr Ivanovych Shostatsky was born to a peasant family on November 3, 1962, in the village of Raykivtsi in the Khmelnytsky district of the Khmelnytsky region.

In the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

On December 15, 2018, he participated in the Unity Council and the creation of a local autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine. that means he has a support inside UOC-KP and UAOC, because there were only 2 bishops from MP who participated in voting.

Together with the former primates of UOC-KP Filaret (Denysenko) and UAOC Macarius (Maletych) he became a lifelong member of the Holy Synod of the newly formed church.

After joining OCU in December he predicted slow but large-scale move of MP clergy to the newly formed church. He said about MP clergy position in case of joining OCU:

As of January 24, 2019, "more than 30" MP parishes joined the diocese of metropolitan Symeon of Vynnytsa and Bar in OCU.