Secretary of Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
In the world - Drabynko Alexander
Nikolayevich
Born - March 18, 1977
Consecration date -
19.12.2007
Bishop of
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Alexander
(in the world - Drabynko Alexander
Nikolayevich), Ukrainian, was born on March 18,
1977 in
Korets, Rivne region in the family of salaried workers.
In 1994 he graduated from
the secondary school of I-III degrees No.3 in Korets with the
distinction "Golden Medal".
In 1994 he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary
in the city of Sergiyev-Posad, Moscow region, from which he graduated
with senior grade in 1988.
From 1998 till 2002 he
studied in the Kyiv Theological Academy, on graduation from which he
defended the thesis "Orthodoxy in Post-Totalitarian Ukraine (landmarks of
history)". For the given research paper he was awarded the degree of a candidate
of Theology.
From 1998 - administrative assistant of His Beatitude
Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church.
On May 20, 2004, on the feast
of Holy Ascension of Christ, in the Church of St.Mary Magdalene in Tiberias (the Holy Land) at the Divine Liturgy he was
ordained to the holy diaconate by His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
From February, 2003 till November, 2005 he was engaged as co-author and director
of the joint project of TBC "Era" and the Chief Editorial Board of
Informational Programmes of the UOC "Pravoslavnyi Mir" (Orthodox World).
July 1, 2006 by the order No.936-1 for the Kyiv Metropolis of the UOC he was
appointed personal assistant to the Primate of the UOC.
From August 1, 2006 -
Editor in Chief of the official web site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (orthodox.org.ua) and editorial director of
the official all-church print edition Tserkovna /Pravoslavna/ Hazeta" ("Church
/Orthodox/ Newspaper").
On July
28, 2006 on
the commemoration day of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Great Prince Volodymyr
he was ordained priest by His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All
Ukraine, and was bestowed on with epigonation (nabedrennik), kamilavka and
golden pectoral cross.
On August 20, 2006 he was
tonsured a monk with the name Alexander after the Venerable Alexander of Svir by
His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine in the
St.Panteleimon Monastery on the Holy Mount Athos.
On August 28, 2006, on the feast of the Holy Dormition of the Theotokos, in the Holy
Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra he was elevated to the rank of hegumen by the
Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with imposition of the decorated
cross.
On September
24, 2006 on
the day of the Zimne Icon of the Mother of God he was elevated to the rank of
archimandrite by His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
January 7, 2007 on the occasion of the feast of Nativity of
Christ he was awarded with the second decorated cross.
Publications:
"Why the schismatic
groupings in Ukraine are called non-canonical." (in Ukrainian) - Historical and canonical analysis of the
present day UAOC and UOC-KP schisms.
Photo album ‘The Primate'.
Published under his general
editorship:
"Chronicles of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church" 2006, 2007.
"Church Calendar" 2000-2007.
"Such hierarch befits us", 2007.
"Ukrainian Orthodox Church: 15 years of conciliarism", 2007.
"Shrines of the Ukrainian Land", 2006. | |
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