Nicodemus Rusnak
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Church | Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) |
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Ordination | 29 April 1945 |
Rank | Metropolitan |
Personal details | |
Born | Mykola Stepanovych Rusnak 18 April 1921 Davydivtsi, Kingdom of Romania (now Ukraine) |
Died | 15 September 2011 Holy Intercession Monastery, Kharkiv, Ukraine | (aged 90)
Denomination | Eastern Orthodoxy |
Metropolitan Nicodemus, secular name Mykola Stepanovych Rusnak (Ukrainian: Микола Степанович Руснак; 18 April 1921 – 15 September 2011) was the Ukrainian Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv.[1]
He was born in 1921 in Davydivtsi, Chernivtsi. On 6 January 1945, he took monastic tonsure and was ordained three months later, on 29 April 1945.[1]
He died at the Bishops' residence in the Holy Intercession Monastery, Kharkiv, on 15 September 2011.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "ХАРКІВ. Відійшов до Господа керуючий єпархією митрополит Никодим (Руснак)" [KHARKIV. Metropolitan Nikodim (Rusnak), the head of the diocese, departed for the Lord]. Ukrainian Orthodox Church (in Ukrainian). 9 October 2011. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
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