Metropolitan Vladimir (other)
Metropolitan Vladimir may refer to: *Volodymyr Sabodan (1935–2014), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) *Vladimir Bogoyavlensky Vladimir (russian: Владимир), baptismal name: Vasily Nikiforovich Bogoyavlensky (russian: Василий Никифорович Богоявленский; 1 January 1848 – ), was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was appoi ...

Volodymyr Sabodan
Metropolitan Vladimir (Volodymyr; secular name Viktor Markianovich Sabodan, russian: Виктор Маркианович Сабодан, uk, Віктор Маркіянович Сабодан, November 23, 1935 – July 5, 2014) was the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) from 1992 to 2014. Metropolitan Volodymyr's official title was ''His Beatitude Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine''. As head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), he was the head of the only Ukrainian Church inside Ukraine to have canonical standing (legal recognition) in Eastern Orthodoxy worldwide. Early life Viktor Sabodan was born November 23, 1935 in a peasant family in Letychiv Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast (today - Khmelnytskyi Oblast). In the late 1950s and early 1960s Sabodan studied at Odessa and later Leningrad Theological Seminary. In 1965 Sabodan completed the post-graduate course at the Moscow Theological Academy and was appointe ...
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