Metropolitan Polikarp (in the world Pyotr Dmitriyevich Sikorsky ; ( June 20 [ July 2 ] 1875 , Zelenki , Kiev province - July 26, 1953 , Olneux-sous-Bois , France ) - since February 1942, Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church , restored on the territory of the Reich Commissariat Ukraine .
| Metropolitan Polycarp | ||
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| summer 1941 -? | ||
| Church | UAOC | |
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| December 24, 1941 - 1944 | ||
| Birth name | Peter Dmitrievich Sikorsky | |
| Birth | June 20 ( July 2 ) 1875 Zelenki , Kiev province | |
| Death | July 26, 1953 (78 years old) Aulnay sous Bois , France | |
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Biography
Born on June 20, 1875 in a priest's family in the village of Zelenki, Kiev district of the Kiev province (now Mironovsky district of the Kiev region ).
He graduated from the Uman Theological College ; in 1898 - Kiev Theological Seminary .
1906 - 1910 - volunteer at the Law Faculty of Kiev University .
In 1908 - 1918 he was the head of the Kiev Theological Consistory.
Since 1917 - an employee in the Ministry of Religion of the Petlyura government (head of department at the Ministry of Education). After the fall of the government, Petliura left for Poland , where he entered the jurisdiction of the Polish Orthodox Church .
While in Poland, tonsured a monk; On July 30, 1922 he was ordained a hieromonk by Archbishop of Volyn Dionysius (Waledinsky) .
In the same year he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite .
He was engaged in the restoration of monasteries that were badly damaged by hostilities: Dermansky and Zagayevsky in Volyn, Zhirovitsky in Grodno. He was rector of the Cathedral of Mstislav in Vladimir-Volynsky.
A supporter of the Ukrainianization of the Orthodox Church in Poland , supported the work of "enlightenment" and "Ukrainian huts" in the Orthodox parishes of the Volyn diocese [1] . During his years in the Zhirovitsky monastery during church services and the incense of the church, Archimandrite Polycarp defiantly refused to incense the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, motivating it with the words: “Tse is impossible, tse moskalska!” [2]
On April 1, 1932, he was consecrated in Warsaw as bishop of Lutsk, vicar of the Volyn-Rivne diocese. The consecration was headed by the Metropolitan of Warsaw Dionysius (Waledinsky) .
After the accession of Western Ukraine and Belarus to the Soviet Union , in 1940 he was admitted to the Moscow Patriarchate and appointed bishop of Vladimir-Volynsky . However, he basically refused to leave for Moscow to undergo the official accession procedure.
After the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Bishop Polycarpus returned to the jurisdiction of the Polish Orthodox Church, headed by the Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland, Dionysius (Waledinsky). Already in the summer of 1941, Metropolitan Dionysius appointed Polycarp (Sikorsky) as bishop of Lutsk and Kovelsky.
In the Reichskommissariat “Ukraine” created on August 20, 1941 , on December 24, 1941, Metropolitan Dionysius (Waledinsky) was appointed “Provisional Administrator of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church in the Liberated Lands of Ukraine”.
On February 9-10, 1942 at the Pinsk Cathedral, Metropolitan Dionysius of Warsaw blessed the revival of the UAOC hierarchy in the Reich Commissariat, led by Archbishop Lutsk and Kovelsky Polycarp (Sikorski); Archbishop Polycarp declared himself head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephaly.
By the definition of the Patriarchal Locum Tenens Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) “ with the Cathedral of Russian Bishops ” dated March 28, 1942, No. 12 is forbidden in priesthood and brought to the “court of the Council of Russian Bishops ”, with a two-month term “ for presentation of his excuses to the Moscow Patriarchate, according to the consideration of which, with the defendant being summoned to the court, the cathedral will make a final decision on the case ” [3] .
In 1944 he was evacuated to Warsaw. In the last days of July 1944 he left Warsaw for Germany [1] .
In Western Europe, he led the newly formed " Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Europe ", uniting many second-wave Ukrainian immigrants around him. In 1946, the “Metropolitan” Polycarpus entered into conflict with many of the “bishops” of the UAOC in Europe, who refused to recognize his right to head the UAOC [2] .
In 1946, the Council of Bishops of its jurisdiction was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan .
In 1950 he moved to France and until his death he lived not far from Paris [1] .
He died on July 26, 1953 in Aulnay-sous-Bois , a suburb of Paris .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Metropolitan Polycarp (Sikorsky)
- ↑ 1 2 Polycarp (Sikorsky)
- ↑ Definition No. 12 of March 28, 1942 // Truth about religion in Russia. / Ed. col .: Nikolai (Yarushevich) , G.P. Georgievsky , N.P. Smirnov. - M .: Moscow Patriarchate, 1942 .-- S. 141−142.
Links
- Polycarp (Sikorsky) on the site "Russian Orthodoxy"
- A.K. Svitich. Orthodox Church in Poland and its autocephaly
- A brief chronicle of the canonical episcopal line of the UAOC in the period 1924-1944