Ivan Ohiyenko
Ilarion ( Ukrainian Іларіон , secular name: Ivan Iwanowytsch Ohijenko . / Ukr Іван Іванович Огієнко ; born January 2 . Jul / 14. January 1882 greg. In Brusilov , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 29. March 1972 in Winnipeg , Canada ) was a Ukrainian linguist, ethnographer, historian, university rector, politician, and Ukrainian Orthodox metropolitan and primate .
Life
Ivan Ohijenko was born in Brusyliw in what is now the Zhytomyr Oblast of Ukraine . He studied Slavic Philology and Literature at St. Vladimir University until 1909, among others with Wolodymyr Peretz in Kiev . After graduating, he wanted to continue his research at the university, but this request was initially rejected by the Ministry of Education because of his involvement in the Ukrainian national movement. From 1912 he taught at the Kiev Trade Institute and from 1915 as a professor of the history of Ukrainian culture at the Kiev University. In 1917/18 he played an important role in the Ukrainization of higher education and in advocating the ecclesiastical independence of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. In the summer of 1918 he was the founder and first rector of the University of Kamianets-Podilskyi , which officially opened its doors on October 22, 1918. As a party member of the Ukrainian Socialist Federalists (УПСФ) he became Minister of Education in the governments of Volodymyr Chekhivskyj and Serhiy Ostapenko in early 1919 and subsequently from 1919 to 1920 Minister of Religion in the governments of Issaak Masepa and Vyacheslav Prokopovych of the Ukrainian People's Republic .
After the military defeat of Symon Petlyura and the subsequent collapse of the state, he emigrated to the Polish Tarnów , the seat of government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile and was still active in this. Between 1924 and 1926 Ohijenko was a teacher at a grammar school in Lviv and from 1926 to 1932 he was professor of Church Slavonic at the Theological Faculty of the University of Warsaw , but had to leave under political pressure from Polish nationalists. In the following years he founded the magazines "Mutterssprach" and "Unser Kultur" in Warsaw, with which he tried to keep Ukrainian culture alive and to counter the Russification in Ukraine . He stayed in the country even after the German occupation of Poland , was ordained a priest in 1940 and received a tonsure and the name Ilarion . Soon afterwards he became the archimandrite of the St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jabłeczna . The Metropolitan of the Polish Orthodox Church Dionitsy consecrated him on October 19, 1940 as Bishop of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Chełm and Podlasie and on March 16, 1944 he became Metropolitan there.
On July 18, 1944, he fled Chełm from the advance of the Red Army . He came to Slovakia via Krynica-Zdrój and Zakopane and from there via Austria to Lausanne , where he lived for some time until, at the invitation of a Canadian Ukrainian Orthodox parish council, he emigrated to Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba in September 1947 . On August 8, 1951, he was elected Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada , succeeding Mstyslaw . Since 1951 he was also a professor at St. Andrew's College of the University of Manitoba and taught budding Ukrainian Orthodox priests. He died in Winnipeg in 1972 and was buried there in Glen Eden Cemetery.
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Ohijenko wrote articles on Ukrainian linguistics , literature , church history and the history of Ukrainian culture . In 1927/28 he published a two-volume work on Saints Cyril and Method and in 1942 a book on the general history of the Ukrainian Church. Ivan Ohijenko translated the Bible into Ukrainian from 1917. In 1937 he published the translation of the Gospels, in 1939 the New Testament and the Psalms. By 1940 he had translated most of the Bible, but was unable to publish it due to the war. After revisions and other changes, its full translation was finally published in 1962.
family
In 1907 Iwan Ohijenko married Dominika Łytwynczuk († 1937), with whom he had two sons and a daughter. He was the great-great-uncle of the Ukrainian athlete and sports official Serhiy Bubka .
Honors
The Ukrainian Ivan Ohiyenko National University Kamianets-Podilskyi has been named after him since 2008.
On the occasion of Ivan Ohijenko's 125th birthday in 2007, the Ukrainian Post issued a postage stamp and the Ukrainian National Bank issued a two hryvnia commemorative coin with his portrait.
Memorial plaques to him can be found at the University in Kamianets-Podilskyi and on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard No. 14 in Kiev.
There are monuments erected in his memory
- since 1988 in Saskatoon , Canada
- since August 2010 in his birthplace Brussyliw
- since October 2010 in Wynnyky , where he lived between 1922 and 1924
Web links
- Biography of Ivan Ohijenko on the website of the Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Metropolitan Ilarion Archbishop Chelm i Podlasie ; accessed on December 12, 2016 (Polish)
- ↑ a b entry on Ohiienko, Ivan ; in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine accessed on December 12, 2016
- ↑ a b c Ilarion's biography on the Canadian Orthodox Christian History Project website ; accessed on December 12, 2016
- ↑ The guest of this year's festival "Ukrainian Days" in Chicago - the legendary Sergey Bubka in "Time and Event" on August 8, 2013 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on December 12, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Monument Metropolitan Ivan Ohijenko in Wynnyky in Plus Lviv from February 1, 2014; accessed on December 12, 2016 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Ohiyenko, Ivan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ohijenko, Ivan Ivanovich (full name); Огієнко, Іван Іванович (Ukrainian); Ilarion (spiritual name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian linguist, ethnographer, historian, university rector, politician, Ukrainian Orthodox metropolitan and primate |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussyliw , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1972 |
| Place of death | Winnipeg , Canada |