Basil (Bodnarchuk)

Basil

Metropolitan of Ternopil and Buchach
Church| Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
Installed| 31 March 1990
Term ended| 21 January 2006
Predecessor| new position
Successor| Nestor (Pysyk)
Orders
Ordination| 1960
by Eumenius (Khorolsky)
Consecration| 31 March 1990 (UAOC)
by Ioann (Bodnarchuk) (UAOC)
Personal details
Born|

Ivan Mykolayovych Bodnarchuk

(1925-01-28)28 January 1925

Ivane-Puste, Tarnopol Voivodeship, Poland

Died| 21 January 2006(2006-01-21) (aged 80)
Ukraine

Metropolitan Basil (Bodnarchuk) (28 January 1925 – 21 January 2006) was a metropolitan bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate of Ternopil and Buchach. Before 1997 he also participated in revival of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).

## Biography[edit]

Metropolitan Basil was born Ivan Bodnarchuk in village of Ivane-Puste,[1] Tarnopol Voivodeship, Poland. In 1942 he completed his secondary education and in 1942-1944 studied at trade vocational school in Borshchiv. Since September of 1942 he was a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Banderite) with pseudonym "Arkhyp".

With liberation of western parts of Ukraine and arrival of the Soviet authorities, on 9 July 1945 Bodnarchuk was arrested and on 13 November sentenced by the Military Tribunal of Chortkiv city to 10 years of imprisonment and 5 years of deprivation of all civil rights. He served his sentence first in Kharkiv Factory "Serp and Molot" until 1946[2] and then in the city of Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai. On 27 November 1954 he was released and in 1957 enrolled in the Saratov Theological Seminary.

In 1960, he was ordained a priest by Archbishop of Zhytomyr Eumenius (Khorolsky). Until 1965, he served as a priest in the village of Krylivka, Andrushivka Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast; until 1968 — in the village of Yaseniv-Pilny, Horodenka Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast; until 1978 — in the village of Stryivka, Zbarazh Raion, Ternopil Oblast; until 1987 — in the city of Truskavets, Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast; until 1990 - in the village Mykhaylevichi, Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast.

### Ukrainian church[edit]

On 30 March 1990 Bodnarchuk was tonsured as monk Mykhaylevichi selecting name Basil (Vasyl). The next day he was consecrated as a bishop by his younger brother Metropolitan of Lviv and Galicia Ioann (Bodnarchuk), Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea Barlaam (Ilyushchenko), Bishop of Yasnaya Poliana Vikenti (Chekalin).[3] In 1990 Bishop Basil was appointed to the diocese of Ternopil and Buchach by the Holiest Patriarch of Kyiv and all Ukraine Mstyslav (Skrypnyk). In 1991 Patriarch Mstyslav paid a visit to Ternopil diocese of Bishop Basil, particularly Ternopil, Kremenets and Pochaiv and laid the cornerstone for the construction of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Pidvolochysk.[4]

On 19 October 1997 Bishop Basil along with his diocese switched to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate where he served until his death in 2006. During his service Metropolitan Basil ordained over 300 priests and consecrated over 100 temples.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ The memory of the metropolitan, a political prisoner, will be commemorated in Ternopil region (На Тернопільщині вшанують пам'ять митрополита-політв’язня). teren.in.ua (archived). 15 January 2021
2. ^ ВАСИЛІЙ (БОДНАРЧУК ІВАН МИКОЛАЙОВИЧ). irp.te.ua. 15 March 2018
3. ^ Metropolitan Ioann (Bodnarchuk) and the third revival of the UAOC and proclamation of the Kyivan Patriarchate (Митрополит Іоан (Боднарчук) і третє відродження УАПЦ та проголошення Київського Патріархату). vb.vpba.edu.ua (archived)
4. ^ a b Тернопільсько-Бучацька єпархія. www.cerkva.info.

## External links[edit]

* Basil (Bodnarchuk) Archived 24 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine // cerkva.info

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* Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine

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