page_title: Symeon (Shostatsky)
hierarchical_section_title: Symeon (Shostatsky)
caption_attribution_description: English: Metropolitan Symeon of Vynnytsa visiting Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in January 2019.
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: Metropolitan Symeon (also romanized Simeon; born Volodymyr Ivanovych Shostatsky, Володимир Іванович Шостацький)  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 (Drabynko) of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, he joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. He had previously been a member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), where  in 1996, he was consecrated as the Metropolitan Bishop of Vinnytsia and Bar.
caption: Metropolitan Symeon visiting Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople on January 5, 2019.
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