Metropolitan Volodymyr

A bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate since 1966, its primate in 1992–2014, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine. He was the chairman and a permanent member of the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, a permanent member of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, and a member of the Presidium of the Inter-Council Presence of the ROC.

He died on July 5, 2014 at the age of 78.