| Basil | |
| Metropolitan of Ternopil and Buchach | |
| Church: | Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church |
| Birth Name: | Ivan Mykolayovych Bodnarchuk |
| Enthroned: | 31 March 1990 |
| Ended: | 21 January 2006 |
| Predecessor: | new position |
| Successor: | Nestor (Pysyk) |
| Birth Date: | 28 January 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Ivane-Puste, Tarnopol Voivodeship, Poland |
| Death Place: | Ukraine |
| Consecration: | 31 March 1990 |
| Consecrated By: | Ioann (Bodnarchuk) (UAOC) |
| Ordination: | 1960 |
| Ordained By: | Eumenius (Khorolsky) |
Metropolitan Basil (Bodnarchuk) (28 January 1925 – 21 January 2006) was a metropolitan bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate of Ternopil and Buchach. Before 1997 he also participated in revival of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).
Metropolitan Basil was born Ivan Bodnarchuk in village of Ivane-Puste,[1] Tarnopol Voivodeship, Poland. In 1942 he completed his secondary education and in 1942-1944 studied at trade vocational school in Borshchiv. Since September of 1942 he was a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Banderite) with pseudonym "Arkhyp".
With liberation of western parts of Ukraine and arrival of the Soviet authorities, on 9 July 1945 Bodnarchuk was arrested and on 13 November sentenced by the Military Tribunal of Chortkiv city to 10 years of imprisonment and 5 years of deprivation of all civil rights. He served his sentence first in Kharkiv Factory "Serp and Molot" until 1946[2] and then in the city of Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai. On 27 November 1954 he was released and in 1957 enrolled in the Saratov Theological Seminary.
In 1960, he was ordained a priest by Archbishop of Zhytomyr Eumenius (Khorolsky). Until 1965, he served as a priest in the village of Krylivka, Andrushivka Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast; until 1968 — in the village of Yaseniv-Pilny, Horodenka Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast; until 1978 — in the village of Stryivka, Zbarazh Raion, Ternopil Oblast; until 1987 — in the city of Truskavets, Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast; until 1990 - in the village Mykhaylevichi, Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast.
On 30 March 1990 Bodnarchuk was tonsured as monk in Mykhaylevychi, with the name Basil (Vasyl). The next day he was consecrated as a bishop by his younger brother Metropolitan of Lviv and Galicia Ioann (Bodnarchuk), Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea Barlaam (Ilyushchenko), Bishop of Yasnaya Poliana Vikenti (Chekalin).[3] In 1990 Bishop Basil was appointed to the diocese of Ternopil and Buchach by the Holiest Patriarch of Kyiv and all Ukraine Mstyslav (Skrypnyk). In 1991 Patriarch Mstyslav paid a visit to Ternopil diocese of Bishop Basil, particularly Ternopil, Kremenets and Pochaiv and laid the cornerstone for the construction of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Pidvolochysk.[4]
On 19 October 1997 Bishop Basil along with his diocese switched to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate where he served until his death in 2006. During his service Metropolitan Basil ordained over 300 priests and consecrated over 100 temples.[4]