Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski

Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski was a Belarusian socio-cultural and religious figure, and founder of the American World Patriarchates.

Biography

Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski was born in the Vilna region of Belarus to Belarusian Catholic parents.
In his adulthood, he was consecrated as bishop within a continuation to the American Orthodox Catholic Church, and enthroned as archbishop of the Old Orthodox Catholic Patriarchate of America. By 1972, Ryzy-Ryski was excommunicated from the American Orthodox Catholic Church by Walter Myron Propheta after having established the American World Patriarchates.
During his leadership over the American World Patriarchates, the Peoples University of the Americas was founded in 1968.