Nikanor Abramovych

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Metropolitan Nikanor (secular name Nikanor Nikandrovych Burczak-Abramowicz, Ukrainian: Нiканор Нiкандрович Бурчак-Абрамович; July 2, 1875 - October 22, 1953) was a bishop of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. He was born in 1883 in village near Stara Vyzhivka in Volhynian Polesie in a family of impoverished church teacher Nikandor Fedorovych Burczak-Abramowicz and his wife Olena Mykolaivna (née Pynkevych). His old noble family hailed from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lytvyns) who moved to Volhynia, Kyiv and Chelm lands and were Ukrainized (Ruthenized). His ancestors belonged to clergy (so called the First Estate). At first Nikanor studied in native village church-parochial school where his father worked as a teacher, later in Miletska Theological school near Kovel in Matsiyove (today does not exist). Upon graduation from Miletska Theological school, he enrolled to the Volhynian Theological Academy in Zhytomyr. Nikanor lost his dad when he was 15, while his mother died in 1918 soon after she received information that Bolsheviks in Bessarabia murdered her son Fedir, a student of Kharkiv Veterinary Institute. During the 1905 Revolution Nikanor was involved in local Ukrainian "Hromada" of Zhytomyr that was formed by Luka Haskevych and became a leader of it after the Russian Gendarmes killed Haskevych in 1905. Due to family circumstances upon graduation from Volhynian Theological Academy, Nikanor had to find a job and for several years works as a teacher of church-parochial schools near Volodymyr and enrolls to the Kyiv Commercial Institute where he studied for three years. In 1910 Nikanor was married. The same year on 4 November 1910 vicar Bishop of Vladimir-Volynsky Fadei (Volhynian Eparchy, Russian Orthodox Church) by order of the ruling Archbishop Antony (Khrapovitsky) ordained Nikanor in St Volodymyr's Cathedral as a deacon and the next day 5 November 1910 – a priest. In 1918 Nikanor finished the Kyiv Theological Academy...