Spyrydon Babskyi
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Spyrydon Babskyi | |
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Archbishop of Ukrainian SSR | |
Died | May 1, 2011 Zhytomyr, Ukraine | (aged 52)
Spyrydon (
Oleh Babskyi was born on May 13, 1958, in
In 1989 he was elevated to the dignity of archpriest. He was divorced from his wife, and supported
In 1997 he converted to the Catholic Church and incardinated to Kyiv-Vyshhorod Exarchate of the UGCC and was appointed parish priest in one among the parishes in Lutsk city. On 10 October 2004, he left the Church and joined to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Canonical as Archbishop of Lutsk and Volyn Vasyliy. On 5 August 2005, he was joined to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America (not confuse this organization with Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA) as archbishop of Lutsk and Volyn, and changed again his name to Spyrydon (in June 2006). On 28 January 2008, he joined to the True Russian Orthodox Church (some marginal organization) as Archbishop of Lutsk and Volyn, but on 29 May 2009, he retired for health reasons. But in emeriture he had communicatio in sacris with the True Orthodox Church-Archepiscopacy of Slobodzhansk (other organization, that split from the True Russian Orthodox Church). He died in Zhytomyr on 1 May 2011.
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External links
- Profile at Anti-Raskol.ru site (in Russian)