Metropolitan John (Ukrainian: Митрополит Іоан or Іоанн, Ioann; secular name Vasyl Mykolayovych Bodnarchuk, Ukrainian: Василь Миколайович Боднарчук, Russian: Василий Николаевич Боднарчук; 12 April 1927 – 9 November 1994) was an Orthodox hierarch born in the Ternopil area of Western Ukraine, which at that time was a territory of Poland. Defrocked from the Russian Orthodox Church, metropolitan Ioann played a notable role in revival of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. During his life he served as a bishop successively in the Russian Orthodox Church (1977–1989), in the Ukrainian Autocep
