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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, remaining a citizen of the Soviet Union. Born as Mykhailo Oksiyuk in Łukowisko, Siedlce Governorate (part of Russian Empire) on 29 September 1884 in a rich peasant family, in 1897-1901 he studied at the Warsaw Theological School. In 1907 he graduated the Chełm Theological Seminary where one of his teachers was Dionysius (Waledyński). In 1911 Oksiyuk graduated the Kiev Theological Academy as a candidate of Theology and later stayed in the academy acting as a docent of the Department of Old Christian Literature (Patrology and Byzantinology). In 1914 he was confirmed as a full pledged docent and received a title of Magister of Theology for his work "Gregory…