Nicodemus (Rusnak)
Metropolitan Nicodemus | |
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Church | Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) |
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Birth name | Mykola Stepanovych Rusnak |
Metropolitan Nicodemus (secular name Nikolay Stepanovich Rusnak; 4 April 1921 – 15 September 2011) was the Ukrainian Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv.[1]
He was born in 1921 in Davidìvcì, Chernivtsi. On 6 January 1945, he took monastic tonsure and was ordained three months later, on 29 April 1945.[2]