Volodymyr Sabodan
His Beatitude Volodymyr | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine | |
Volodymyr in 2008 | |
| Church | Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) |
| Elected | 27 May 1992 |
| Predecessor | Filaret |
| Successor | Onufriy |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 15 June 1961 |
| Consecration | 9 July 1966 by Pimen I of Moscow |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 November 1935 Markivtsi, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
| Died | 5 July 2014 (aged 78) Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Signature | |
Metropolitan Vladimir (Volodymyr; secular name Viktor Markianovich Sabodan, Russian: Виктор Маркианович Сабодан, Ukrainian: Віктор Маркіянович Сабодан, 23 November 1935 – 5 July 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.