Nicodemus Rusnak Explained

Nicodemus
Birth Name:Mykola Stepanovych Rusnak
Birth Date:18 April 1921
Birth Place:Davydivtsi, Kingdom of Romania (now Ukraine)
Death Place:Holy Intercession Monastery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Church:Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
Bishop Of:Metropolitan
Ordination:29 April 1945
Rank:Metropolitan
Religion:Eastern Orthodoxy
Honorific Prefix:His Eminence

Metropolitan Nicodemus, secular name Mykola Stepanovych Rusnak (; 18 April 1921 – 15 September 2011) was the Ukrainian Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv.[1]

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.

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ХАРКІВ. Відійшов до Господа керуючий єпархією митрополит Никодим (Руснак) . KHARKIV. Metropolitan Nikodim (Rusnak), the head of the diocese, departed for the Lord . 9 October 2011 . Ukrainian Orthodox Church . uk . 27 May 2020 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111009162034/http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/node/9928 . 9 October 2011.