Metropolitan Plato Udovenko fell asleeptranslated

He fell asleep on November 6, 2026, at the age of 86, after a long illness, Metropolitan Plato (Udovenko), at the Research Institute of Emergencies N.V. Sklifosovsky in Moscow. Born Vladimir Petrovich Udovenko on November 17, 1940 in the village of Uspenka, Lugansk Oblast, Ukraine. He graduated from the Leningrad Theological Academy in 1969.

On April 14, 1971, he was ordained a monk by Metropolitan Nikodimos of Leningrad and Novgorod. On April 17 of the same year he was ordained a Deacon and on September 12 an Elder. On November 3, 1972, he received the office of Archimandrite and joined the clergy of the Diocese of Argentina and South America. On December 16, 1973, he was ordained Bishop of Argentina and South America in the Cathedral of Theophany in Moscow.

The ordination was performed by the Patriarch of Russia Poimin, supported by the Metropolitans Nikodimos of Leningrad and Novgorod, Filareto of Kiev and Galicia, Alexios of Tallinn and Estonia, Seraphim of Krutitsis and Kolomna, Juvenalios of Tula and Beliovo, Archbishops of Krasnodar and Kuban Alexios, Kharkiv and Bugudukhovo Nikodimos, Volokolamsk Pitirim and the...