Volodymyr Sabodan

Metropolitan Vladimir was the Metropolitan of Kiev and the Exarch of Ukraine in the Patriarchate of Moscow, and, ex officio, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC-MP) from 1992 to 2014. He was styled "His Beatitude, Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine". At that time, the Church in Ukraine was the only Eastern Orthodox Church inside Ukraine to have canonical standing in Eastern Orthodoxy worldwide.