Metropolitan Macarius of Lviv ( uk, link= yes, Макарій, Митрополит Львівський, translit=Makarii, Mytropolyt Lvivskyi,

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: Mykola Ivanovych Maletych, uk, link= no, Микола Іванович Малетич; born on 1 October 1944) is a bishop of the

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(OCU) and a permanent member of the Standing Holy Synod of the OCU, holding the title of Metropolitan of Lviv. Prior to the Unification Council in December 2018, he was the Primate of the

Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC; uk, Українська автокефальна православна церква (УАПЦ), Ukrayinska avtokefalna pravoslavna tserkva (UAPC)) was one of the three major Eastern Orthod ...

(UAOC), a jurisdiction that did not have recognition on the part of other

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es; he was restored to full ecclesiastical communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople by the decision of the Holy Synod of the

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ( el, Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, translit=Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; la, Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constanti ...

in October 2018. However, this has been accepted only by the Churches of Alexandria, Greece, and in part Cyprus.

Biography

In 1973 and then again in 1974, he tried and failed to enroll at the Odessa Theological Seminary of the

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(ROC). On 10 August 1975, he was ordained a priest within the jurisdiction of the ROC. He served mainly in Ukraine and the Rostov region. In 1982, he finished the

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(ROC). In 1989, he resigned from the canonical

Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) The Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( uk, Українська православна церква, Ukrainska pravoslavna tserkva; russian: Украинская православная церковь, Ukrainskaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', UOC), common ...

and became associated with the

(UAOC). From November 1996, he was a governing bishop of the Lviv diocese of he UAOC and then he also took over jurisdiction over the Volyn dioceses. In 2011, Makary was raised to the dignity of the Metropolitan of Lviv. Following the death of the Primate of the UAOC, Metropolitan

Methodius (Kudriakov) Metropolitan Mefodiy (born Valeriy Andriyovich Kudryakov, uk, Валерій Андрійович Кудряков; 11 March 1949 – 24 February 2015, Kyiv, Ukraine) was the Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Metropolitan ...

, in February 2015, Makary was elected Locum Tenens of the Metropolitan Throne of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. On 4 June 2015, he was elected as Metropolitan and the new Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. At the Unification Council in

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on 15 December 2018, Metropolitan Macarius, along with the bishops, priests, and laity of the UAOC, joined the OCU, a new ecclesiastical body that was in January 2019 granted

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by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He went on to become a permanent member of the Standing Holy Synod of the OCU. On 5 January 2020, he headed the delegation of the OCU to the residence of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in Istanbul and concelebrate the Divine Liturgy with Patriarch

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marking the first anniversary of the OCU's autocephaly. He formally invited Patriarch Bartholomew on behalf of the Primate of the OCU,

Epiphanius I of Ukraine Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine ( uk, link= yes, Епіфаній, Митрополит Київський і всієї України, translit=Epifanii, Mytropolyt Kyivskyi i vsiiei Ukrainy, secular name: Serhii Petrovych Dum ...

, to visit

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References

External links

Митрополит Львівський Макарій
Biography on the official web site of the Lviv diocese Macarius of Lviv People from Lviv Oblast Macarius of Lviv Living people Recipients of the Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine {{Ukraine-reli-bio-stub