Metropolitan Polikarp (

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Petro Dmytrovych Sikorsky, uk, Петро Дмитрович Сікорський; July 2, 1875 - October 22, 1953) was a bishop of the

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and

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 ...

.ПОЛІКАРП (У МИРУ – СІКОРСЬКИЙ ПЕТРО ДМИТРОВИЧ)
Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. He was born in 1875 in a village near Myronivka in a family of priest. He graduated from the Kyiv Theological Seminary in 1898. In 1906 he studied at the Kyiv University Law School (Faculty). Following the Ukrainian independence in 1918-21 Sikorsky served as an official and head of department at the Ukrainian People's Ministry of Confessions. After the

Treaty of Riga The Peace of Riga, also known as the Treaty of Riga ( pl, Traktat Ryski), was signed in Riga on 18 March 1921, among Poland, Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine. The treaty ended the Polish–Soviet War. ...

in 1920 he stayed in

Volhynia Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The ...

. In 1922 he made tonsure to monasticism and was elevated to the rank of archimandrite serving in turns as a hegumen for Derman Holy Trinity Monastery, Velyki Zahaitsi Monastery, and Zhyrovichy Monastery. Sikorski was active in political and community life. He was consecrated as a Bishop of Lutsk, vicar of Eparchy of Volhynia, by bishops including

Dionizy (Waledyński) Metropolitan Dionizy (born Konstanty Nikołajewicz Waledyński 4 May/16 May 1876 in Murom, Vladimir Oblast, Russia - 15 March 1960, Warsaw) was the Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland and the primate of the Polish Orthodox Church

. Following

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and annexation of territories what is now western Ukraine and Belarus, Sikorski refused to join the Moscow Patriarchate and was removed from office of Patriarchal see "locum tenens" by Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky). In September 1941 Sikorsky was heading "Provisional administration of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church" in Volhynia as Archbishop of Lutsk and Kovel eparchy (diocese). By decree of Metropolitan Dionizy (Waledyński) of 24 December 1941 he was appointed to the position of provisional administrator of "Orthodox Autocephalous Church on liberated lands of Ukraine". Sikorsky initiated the 1942 Hierarchal Assembly in Pinsk which became important in reforming the Ukrainian Church. He was elected as a Metropolitan at the Assembly. Soon thereafter the Nazi security officials searched his house and arrested and later executed his assistants Maliuzhynsky and Mysechko. On 6 January 1944 Sikorsky emigrated to

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and later to

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. After the German capitulation he resided in Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia and later

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. He organized several hierarchal assemblies of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in exile. In April 1950 Sikorsky moved to

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, near

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where he headed a parish of Saint-Germain.

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