Ilarion Ohienko

Metropolitan Ilarion (

In face of the advance of the Red Army, he fled west and in 1947 settled in Winnipeg in Western Canada where shortly afterward he became Metropolitan bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada. Throughout his long career, in addition to church work, Ohienko contributed to scholarship and other areas of Ukrainian culture.

Scholarly work

As a scholar, Ohienko made contributions to Ukrainian linguistics,

• The Divine Liturgy of our Holy Father John Chrysostom, in the Ukrainian language — Part I, Text: Proskomidia, Divine Liturgy, Prayers following Holy Communion. (L'viv, 1922);
• The Divine Liturgy of our Holy Father John Chrysostom, in the Ukrainian language — Part II, Explanation of the Text, Translation Methodology of Divine service books into Ukrainian, Explanatory notes on the translation of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Alphabetical list of corresponding Church Slavonic words, List of publications of the Non-profit Publishing House Ukrainian Autocephalous Church under the direction of Prof. Ivan Ohienko. (L'viv, 1922);
• Holy Vespers. (L'viv, 1922);
• Compline and Midnight Service. (L'viv, 1922);
• Holy Matins Service. (L'viv, 1922);
• Little Vespers, Holy All-night Vigil, Saturday Midnight Service, Sunday Midnight Service. (L'viv, 1922);
• First Hour, Third Hour, Sixth Hour, Ninth Hour. (L'viv, 1922);
• Great Compline. (L'viv, 1922);
• Daily Dismissals, Dismissals at Feasts of the Lord, Troparia and Kondakia at Feasts throughout the year, Festal Prokeimena at Orthros Services. (L'viv, 1922);
• Matins Gospels. (L'viv, 1922);
• Prayer of Thanksgiving of St. Ambrose, Bishop of Mediolanum, Nationalisation of theological texts, Afterword, Table of Contents, Errata. (L'viv, 1922);
• Byzantium and Ukraine (1954);

Political activities

A political moderate, during the revolution, Ohienko was a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists. He was a

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Ohienko Bible

Between 1917 and 1940, he also realized a translation of the Bible into the Ukrainian language, finally published in 1958. His translation of the

• The Life of His Beatitude Metropolitan Ilarion (Ohienko) at the Wayback Machine (archived 13 February 2006)
• Огієнко Іван Іванович Archived 6 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine in the Hand-book on the History of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
• Ohiienko, Ivan at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine

External links

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• Ohienko Bible online (in Ukrainian)