Volodymyr Sabodan
Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP)
About Volodymyr Sabodan
Lived 1935 – 2014 (aged 78). Volodymyr Sabodan was a Ukrainian eastern Orthodox priest, patriarch and metropolitan.
Metropolitan Vladimir (Volodymyr; secular name Viktor Markianovich Sabodan, , , 23 November 1935 – 5 July 2014) was the Metropolitan of Kiev and the Exarch of Ukraine in the Patriarchate of Moscow, and, ex officio, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) from 1992 to 2014. He was styled "His Beatitude, Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine". At that time, the Church in Ukraine was the only Eastern Orthodox Church inside Ukraine to have canonical standing (legal recognition) in Eastern Orthodoxy worldwide.
Early life Viktor Sabodan was born on 23 November 1935 in a peasant family in Letychiv Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast (today - Khmelnytskyi Oblast).
In 2011 Sabodan was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine. Metropolitan Onuphrius was elected his successor on 13 August 2014.
State awards Hero of Ukraine (The Order of the State) (2011)
The Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 1st (2008), 2nd (2005), 3rd (2002), 4th (2000) and 5th (1999) cl.
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head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP)
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Volodymyr Sabodan was born on 23 November 1935 in Markivtsi.
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Volodymyr Sabodan died on 5 July 2014 in Kyiv.
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Volodymyr Sabodan was an eastern Orthodox priest, patriarch and metropolitan.
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Volodymyr Sabodan was Ukrainian.
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