Ivan Sydor
Ivan Andriiovych Sydor is a Ukrainian church and public figure, theologian, teacher, Candidate of Sciences in Theology.
Lecturer at the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy; staff priest at the Refectory Church of Saint [Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv|St. Sophia of Kyiv] ; Secretary-Reference Officer of the Kyiv Metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, acting Head of the Synodal Publishing and Educational Department; editor-in-chief of the Pomisna Tserkva magazine. Participant of the Unification council of the [Eastern Orthodox churches of Ukraine|Unification Council]. A bell ringer on the Euromaidan.
Biography
Since childhood, he served in the church.He studied at the Horokhiv Secondary School-Gymnasium and at the Music School. Every year he took part in the bell-ringing competition in Lutsk, which took place in the Lubart's Castle.
He graduated from the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy and the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko [National University of Kyiv].
On the night of 11 December 2013, he, then a graduate student at the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy, woke Kyiv with the bells of St. Michael's Monastery for the first time since the Tatar-Mongol invasion in 1240 to stop another attempt to disperse Euromaidan.