Orthodox Church. On 13 November 1989 Ioan (Bodnarchuk) was defrocked by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine was faced with a problem in reinstating its bishop hierarchy. Ioan (Bodnarchuk) petition to Patriarch of Georgian Orthodox Church, vicar bishop Jonathan (Yeletskikh) of Pereyaslav, Metropolitan Vladimir (Cantarean) of Chisinau and all Moldova, and others. According to Ioan (Bodnarchuk), he again was consecrated as bishop of Ternopil and Buchach on 31 March 1990 by bishop Varlaam (Ilyuschenko) of Simferopol and Crimea and bishop Vikentiy (Chekalin) of Yasna Poliana. Then in 1992, he was excluded from the clergy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, where he repented and submitted an application on returning to the Moscow Patriarchate. But, before the decision was made on his behalf, Metropolitan Ioann changed his mind and recalled his petition. Instead, he joined the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate and was appointed as Metropolitan of Drohobych and Sambir. Later he would be appointed Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn. Consecrated bishops Vasyliy (Bodnarchuk) – 31 March 1990 (along with archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea Varlaam, bishop of Yasnaya Poliana Vikentiy) Andriy (Abramchuk) – 7 April 1990 (along with bishop of Ternopil-Buchach Vasyliy, bishop of Yasna Poliana Vikentiy) Danyil (Kovalchuk) – 27 April 1990 (along with bishop of Ternopil-Buchach Vasyliy, bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia Andriy) Volodymyr (Romaniuk) – 29 April 1990 (along with bishop of Ternopil-Buchach Vasyliy, bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia Andriy, bishop of Chernivtsi and Bukovina Danyil) Mykolai (Hrokh) – 19 May 1990 Roman (Balashchuk) – 22 May 1990 (along with bishop of Ternopil-Buchach Vasyliy, bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia Andriy) Antoniy (Masendych) – 16 September 1990 (along with bishop Volodymyr, bishop of Chernivtsi and Bukovina Danyil) In 1991 all consecrations were repeated with help of bishop of Washington Antoniy when credentials of bishop of Yasna Polina Vikentiy were questioned. Death He died in a car accident in 1994. References External links Religious Information Service of Ukraine Dmytro Shapovalov. УАПЦ: у пошуках моделі творення помісної Церкви. www.interklasa.pl. 28 February 2005 1929 births 1994 deaths People from Ternopil Oblast 20th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops First Hierarchs of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Ukrainian prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union People convicted in relations with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Steplag detainees Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church