Nicodemus (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]

Metropolitan Nicodemus
Church	Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
Personal details
Birth name	Mykola Stepanovych Rusnak
Born	(1921-04-04)4 April 1921 Davydivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
Died	15 September 2011(2011-09-15) (aged 90) Holy Intercession Monastery, Kharkiv, Ukraine

He was born in 1921 in Davydivtsi, Chernivtsi. On 6 January 1945, he took monastic tonsure and was ordained three months later, on 29 April 1945.[1]

He died at the Bishops' residence in the Holy Intercession Monastery, Kharkiv, on 15 September 2011.[1]

References

1. "ХАРКІВ. Відійшов до Господа керуючий єпархією митрополит Никодим (Руснак)" [KHARKIV. Metropolitan Nikodim (Rusnak), the head of the diocese, departed for the Lord]. Ukrainian Orthodox Church (in Ukrainian). 9 October 2011. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2020.