Mikhnovsky, Yurii

Mikhnovsky, Yurii [Міхновський, Юрій; Mixnovs'kyj, Jurij], b 6 May 1868 in Pishchane, Poltava gubernia, d 16 October 1937 in Kyiv. Archbishop of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church (UAOC). He studied at a theological seminary in Poltava and was ordained in 1894; he then worked as a clergyman in Pereiaslav and Zolotonosha counties. At the first All-Ukrainian Orthodox Church sobor in October 1921, he was consecrated archbishop of Chernihiv, and in 1922 he was transferred to Zolotonosha. In 1923–31 he did not have an eparchial see, and served as a parish priest throughout the Poltava region. In 1931 he moved to Kyiv, where he was vicar of the Saint Sophia Cathedral until the Soviet authorities forced him out, in 1934. In 1937 Mikhnovsky was arrested and shot by the NKVD.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]