Metropolitan Macarius, secular name Mykhailo Fedorovych Oksiyuk (Ukrainian: Михайло Федорович Оксіюк, Polish: Michał Oksijuk; 29 September 1884 – 1 March 1961) was a Ukrainian religious leader in Poland and the Soviet Union, a primate of the Polish Orthodox Church as Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland. Even though his brother Joseph was a bishop of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the 1920s, following the World War II, Mykhailo Oksiyuk made an excellent career as a religious functionary. As Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, Macarius did not accept a Polish citizenship, re
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