Oleksandr Drabynko
Metropolitan Oleksandr is a metropolitan bishop of Pereyaslav and Vyshneve of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. His full title is His Eminence Oleksandr, Metropolitan of Pereyeslav-Vyshneve. For a long time Oleksandr Drabynko was a personal secretary of Volodymyr Sabodan. According to Metropolitan Jonathan Yeletskykh, “being the personal secretary of His Beatitude Volodymyr, he practically ruled the entire UOC and even shaped the course of the UOC. And especially in the last three years of the life of the seriously ill Primate of the UOC".
Biography
He was born on 18 March 1977 in Korets, Rivne Oblast, in family of government officials.He graduated the Moscow Theological Seminary and later the Kyiv Theological Academy in 2002 becoming a candidate of theology for his dissertation "Eastern Orthodoxy in post-totalitarian Ukraine ".
In 2003 – 2005 Drabynko was a coauthor and anchorman of the television program "Pravoslavnyi Mir" which was ordered by the Main Editorial Office of the information programs of the UOC-(MP).
In his ordination as a bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vyshneve participated 45 bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church.
On 15 December 2018 he joined the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine at the Unification council in Kiev. He was one of the only two UOC-MP bishops which joined the OCU..
Works
- . pereyaslav-eparchia.kiev.ua. 1 March 2015
- . www.orthodox.org.ua.