Mefodiy (Sribnyak)
Archbishop Mefodiy (Mykola Mykolaiovych Sribnyak born 8 June 1957, Hrabivka) is the archbishop of Sumy and Okhtyrka UOC KP. He was an activist of Ukrainian diaspora of eastern Siberia (1992–1995). Biography Mefodiy was born in the village of Hrabivka, Kalush Raion, Ivano–Frankivsk Oblast. When he was young he moved to Siberia. From 1978 to 1986, he has worked as a forester and older one in Krasnoyarsk (Russian Federation). In 1985, he graduated from Siberia Institute of Technology. From 1986 until 1992, he worked as a deputy of director at the Irkutsk medical center. Mykola studied at the medical college, then in Irkutsk medical institute, which he didn't finish because he went to Ukraine in 1994. From 1992 to 1994, he was the head of Irkutsk Ukrainian people's association coming from the same area. In 1995, Sribnyak became a deacon in the Bohoyavlensky cathedral in Noginsk at first, then he was a priest. From 1996 until May 2004, he was a secretary of Dnipropetrovs ...
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Dnipro
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, after which its Ukrainian language name (Dnipro) it is named. Dnipro is the Capital (political), administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. The population of Dnipro is Archeological evidence suggests the site of the present city was settled by Cossack communities from at least 1524. The town, named Yekaterinoslav (''the glory of Catherine''), was established by decree of the Emperor of all the Russias, Russian Empress Catherine the Great in 1787 as the administrative center of Novorossiya Governorate, Novorossiya. From the end of the nineteenth century, the town attracted foreign capital and an international, multi-ethnic, workforce exploiting Kryvbas iron ore and Donbas coa ...
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