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{{Short description|Ukrainian bishop and Primate (1935–2014)}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = His Beatitude
| name = Volodymyr
| image = Volodymyr Sabodan Senate of Poland 02.jpg
| church = [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)]]
| archbishop_of = [[List of Patriarchs and Metropolitans of Ukraine|Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine]]
| elected = 27 May 1992
| predecessor = [[Filaret (Denysenko)|Filaret]]
| successor = [[Onufriy (Berezovsky)|Onufriy]]<ref name="Metropolitan Onufriy elected">[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/218253.html Metropolitan Onufriy of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna elected head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (13 August 2014)</ref>
| ordination = 15 June 1961
| consecration = 9 July 1966
| consecrated_by = [[Pimen I of Moscow]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|11|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Markivtsi, [[Vinnytsia Oblast]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|7|5|1935|11|23|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]]
| signature = Владимир (Сабодан), векторная подпись.svg
| caption = Volodymyr in 2008
}}

'''Metropolitan Vladimir''' ('''Volodymyr'''; [[secular name]] '''Viktor Markianovich Sabodan''', {{langx|ru|Виктор Маркианович Сабодан}}, {{langx|uk|Віктор Маркіянович Сабодан}}, 23 November 1935&nbsp;– 5 July 2014) was the [[Metropolis of Kiev (Patriarchate of Moscow)|Metropolitan of Kiev]] and the Exarch of Ukraine in the [[Patriarch of Moscow|Patriarchate of Moscow]], and, ''[[ex officio]]'', the head of the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)]] (UOC-MP) from 1992 to 2014. He was styled ''"His Beatitude, Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine"''. At that time, the [[History of Christianity in Ukraine|Church in Ukraine]] was the only [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] inside Ukraine to have [[Canon law|canonical]] standing (legal recognition) in [[Organization of the Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy worldwide]].

==Early life==
Viktor Sabodan was born on 23 November 1935 in a peasant family in [[Letychiv Raion]] of [[Vinnytsia Oblast]] (today - [[Khmelnytskyi Oblast]]).<ref name="Volodymyr Sabodan died"/>

In the late 1950s and early 1960s Sabodan studied at [[Odesa]] and later [[Leningrad Theological Seminary]].

In 1965 Sabodan completed the post-graduate course at the [[Moscow]] Theological Academy and was appointed Rector of the Odesa Theological Seminary and elevated to the rank of [[Archimandrite]]. In 1966 he was appointed Deputy Head of the [http://www.rusdm.ru/en/index.php Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem].

==Episcopacy==
In 1966<ref name="Volodymyr Sabodan died"/> Sabodan was appointed [[Bishop]] of Zvenigorod. His episcopal consecration was conferred on 9 July 1966 by [[Pimen I of Moscow]] in the [[Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius]]. In 1969 he was nominated Bishop of [[Chernihiv]] and temporary administrator of [[Sumy Oblast|Sumy]] [[Diocese]]. On 9 September 1973 he was elevated to the rank of [[Archbishop]] of Moscow Diocese and Rector of the [[Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary]].

On 16 July 1982 he was appointed to [[Rostov-on-Don]] Diocese and elevated to the rank of Metropolitan. From 1984 he was Patriarchal [[Exarch]] of Western Europe, and from 1987, [[Chancellery of the Moscow Patriarchate|Chancellor of Moscow Patriarchate]] and a permanent member of the [[Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church]] (ex officio).

In 1992, he was elected by the [[Kharkiv Council]] of the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)|Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] as Metropolitan of [[Kyiv]], and Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Later than year he was enthroned as [[List of Patriarchs and Metropolitans of Ukraine|Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine]], replacing [[Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko)|Metropolitan Filaret]] who was excommunicated for “participating in schismatic activities.”
 	
Sabodan was the author of numerous research papers on theology, the majority of which were included in the six-volume edition of his works published in 1997–1998.

Sabodan enjoyed singing and collected recordings of Ukrainian folk songs as well as stamps and postcards. He had no objections to a good meal.{{cn|date=June 2022}}
 	
In January 2008, Sabodan performed the service of consecration of the altar and temple in the parliament ([[Verkhovna Rada]]) of Ukraine.<ref>''"KYIV. His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr consecrated the church at the Supreme Rada of Ukraine", Official Press secretary, January 2008''</ref>

In 2011 Sabodan was awarded the title [[Hero of Ukraine]].<ref name="Volodymyr Sabodan died"/>

==Death==
Sabodan died on 5 July 2014 from internal bleeding at the age of 78.<ref name="Volodymyr Sabodan died">[http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/metropolitan_volodymyr_dies_323418 Metropolitan Volodymyr dies], [[Ukrinform]] (5 July 2014)</ref> [[Onufriy (Berezovsky)|Metropolitan Onuphrius]] was elected his successor on 13 August 2014.<ref name="Metropolitan Onufriy elected"/>

==State awards==
* [[Hero of Ukraine]] (The Order of the State) (2011)
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* The [[Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise]] 1st (2008), 2nd (2005), 3rd (2002), 4th (2000) and 5th (1999) cl.

==See also==
* [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)]]
* [[History of Christianity in Ukraine]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070216113018/http://www.lavra.kiev.ua/en/main.php?id=98 Metropolitan Volodymyr]
*[http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/07/5/7031034/ Died Metropolitan Volodymyr]. [[Ukrayinska Pravda]]. July 5, 2014

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