Patriarch Dymytriy (Yarema) (9 December 1915 – 25 February 2000) was the second
patriarch
The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), the Hussite Church, Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and in certai ...
of Kyiv and all Ukraine, and 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). Patriarch Dymytriy (Yarema) was successor to
Patriarch Mstyslav (Skrypnyk)
Patriarch Mstyslav, secular name Stepan Ivanovych Skrypnyk (10 April 1898 – 11 June 1993), was a Ukrainian Orthodox Church hierarch. He was a nephew of Symon Petlyura.
Biography
Born in Poltava (Russian Empire, now Ukraine), Skrypny ...
from 1993 to 2000 and was succeeded by
Metropolitan Mefodiy (Kudryakov).
Biography
He was a renaissance man who had studied art and music in his younger years, a leader with a developed political conscious who was a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in the 1930s.
During
World War II
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he was a
prisoner of war
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Belligerents hold prisoners of wa ...
in
Germany
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.
He was
ordained
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to the
diaconate
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on August 3, 1947, and to the
priesthood on August 10 of that same year. In 1947–89 he was a member of the
clergy
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of the
Moscow Patriarchate
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In 1989 he and the other members of the clergy left the
Moscow Patriarchate
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and declared to be put under the omophor 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 ...
under
Metropolitan Mstyslav (Skrypnyk)
Patriarch Mstyslav, secular name Stepan Ivanovych Skrypnyk (10 April 1898 – 11 June 1993), was a Ukrainian Orthodox Church hierarch. He was a nephew of Symon Petlyura.
Biography
Born in Poltava (Russian Empire, now Ukraine), Skrypny ...
who was at that time the head of the
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in USA and Canada.
By 1990, with the
Soviet Union
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falling apart,
The Right Rev
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Fr. Dymitry Yarema initiated and was a participant in the first All-Ukrainian Sobor of the
UAOC
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC; uk, Українська автокефальна православна церква (УАПЦ), Ukrayinska avtokefalna pravoslavna tserkva (UAPC)) was one of the three major Eastern Ortho ...
, held in
Kyiv
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in 1990, which elected
Metropolitan Mstyslav as the first
patriarch
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of
Ukraine
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.
In 1993 he took his
monastic vows
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and then was
ordained
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bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
of ''Pereyaslav'' and ''Sicheslav'' by Archbishop of Lviv Petro (Petrus). At the 2nd Council of the Church in 1993 he was voted
Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus’-Ukraine
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.
In late 1998 the aging Patriarch Dymytriy, his health weakening, determined that the future of the Church would be strengthen if it would turn once again to the ''Ukrainian diaspora'', which had maintained the
UAOC
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC; uk, Українська автокефальна православна церква (УАПЦ), Ukrayinska avtokefalna pravoslavna tserkva (UAPC)) was one of the three major Eastern Ortho ...
during nearly 70 years of
Communist
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rule in
Ukraine
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.
The choice Patriarch Dymytriy made in his ''last will and testament'' to request that the
UAOC
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC; uk, Українська автокефальна православна церква (УАПЦ), Ukrayinska avtokefalna pravoslavna tserkva (UAPC)) was one of the three major Eastern Ortho ...
hierarchy agree to allow
Metropolitan Constantine
Metropolitan Constantine (secular name Theodore Stanislavovich Buggan; July 29, 1936 – May 21, 2012) was the Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, and Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (UOC of USA), which is a jurisdiction of the E ...
of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
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to guide it – which, if carried out, would effectively unite the two Churches – was a calculated move to save the UAOC from further incursions from the larger
Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
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, and the
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 ...
.
References
Religious Information Service of Ukraine
First Hierarchs of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
1915 births
2000 deaths
People from Brzozów County
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians
Ukrainian art historians
Polish military personnel of World War II
World War II prisoners of war held by Germany
20th-century Ukrainian historians
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
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