His Beatitude Volodymyr | |
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| Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine | |
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| Church | Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) |
| Elected | May 27, 1992 |
| Predecessor | Filaret |
| Successor | Onufriy[1] |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | June 15, 1961 |
| Consecration | July 9, 1966 by Pimen I of Moscow |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 23, 1935 Markivtsi, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
| Died | July 5, 2014 (aged 78) Kyiv, Ukraine |
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Metropolitan Vladimir (Volodymyr; secular name Viktor Markianovich Sabodan, ‹See Tfd›Russian: Виктор Маркианович Сабодан, Ukrainian: Віктор Маркіянович Сабодан, November 23, 1935 – July 5, 2014) was the Metropolitan of Kiev and the Exarch of Ukraine in the Patriarchate of Moscow, and, ex officio, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) from 1992 to 2014. He was styled "His Beatitude, Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine". At that time, the Church in Ukraine was the only Eastern Orthodox Church inside Ukraine to have canonical standing (legal recognition) in Eastern Orthodoxy worldwide.