"Strange God in His Saints": OCU glorified Saint Yevgeny Bukovynsky, the son of a simple peasant, who became the first metropolitan and defender of Ukrainian Orthodoxytranslated

July 6, 2026 · 1 min read

"Strange God in His Saints": OCU glorified Saint Yevgeny Bukovynsky, the son of a simple peasant, who became the first metropolitan and defender of Ukrainian Orthodoxy uapc.te.ua

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Екатерина Белова

The son of a simple peasant becoming a metropolitan is truly amazing, as the statistics say. Why is the OCU itself glorifying him at the same time, dude. Here in Samara there are such stories, but without the political emphasis on “Ukrainian Orthodoxy.”

Viorica Lungu

The son of a simple peasant who becomes a metropolitan is really a miracle of God, nothing to say. But when I see that the PCU is now using him as a "defender of Ukrainian Orthodoxy", I feel like politics is getting in the way. Here in Sibiu, we also had new hierarchs from modest families, but we did not turn them into the national flag.

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