page_title: Symeon (Shostatsky)
section_title: In the UOC (MP)
hierarchical_section_title: Symeon (Shostatsky) / Life / In the UOC (MP)
caption_attribution_description: English: Metropolitan Simon of VinnitsaРусский: Архиепископ Симеон (Шостацкий)
context_page_description: Metropolitan Symeon is a bishop of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and A member of its Holy Synod. He was born on November 3, 1962 in the village of Raykivtsi in the Khmelnytsky district of the Khmelnytsky region in Ukraine Together with Metropolitan Oleksandr of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, he joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. He had previously been a member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, where in 1996, he was consecrated as the Metropolitan Bishop of Vinnytsia and Bar.
context_section_description: On December 6, 1990, in the Moscow Danilov Monastery, he became a monk named Symeon (Russian pronunciation: Simeon) in honor of Simeon Stylites. On January 14, 1991, he was ordained to the rank of hierodeacon, on April 28 he was omade hieromonk. From 1990 to 1994 he was a caretaker at the Patriarchal Residence in the Moscow Danilov Monastery.
  In 1994 he became a sacrist in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and entered the Kiev Theological Academy. On April 7, 1995, he was ordained to the rank of igumen (abbot), on November 23 of the same year he was made archimandrite.
  On May 4, 1996, he was ordained bishop of Volodymyr-Volynskyi and Kovel, head of the newly formed Volodymyr-Volynskyi diocese.
  On May 10, 2002, he was promoted to the rank of archbishop. On July 9, 2011, he was promoted to the rank of metropolitan.
  Metropolitan Symeon was the only one out of 83 members of the Council of UOC (MP) (November 13, 2018, Kiev Pechersk Lavra), who did not sign the resolution for breaking the communion between UOC (MP) and Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
caption: During the Liturgy in Zimnensky Monastery on September 24, 2010.
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