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Metropolitan Michael, (secular name Theodot Nykyforovych Khoroshy; 10 July 1885, Fyodorovka, near Chigirin, Russian Empire – May 5, 1977, Toronto) was a bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada from 1951–1977, and the Church's Metropolitan from 1973 until his resignation in 1975. ==Ukraine== Theodot Khoroshy began his early education in his village. Later he moved on to the pedagogical seminary in the town of Shamovka in the Kherson region of Ukraine. Following that, he studied at the Theological Seminary and the Faculty of History-Philology of St. Vladimir's Seminary in Kiev. In December 1912, Bishop Nicodemus ordained young Theodot a deacon. During the next few years, he translated the Liturgical Psalter into Ukrainian. On April 24, 1920, Bishop Dimitrius (Verbitsky) ordained him a priest, and in the following months he was appointed Dean of a church in Ternivka, in the Cherkasy region. After the formation of the non-canonical Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church joined its ranks. Due to his clerical work, in 1923 Fr. Theodot was appointed the Dean of the Cathedral of Cherkasy. At this time the Bolshevik occupation, clergy were pressured to deny their vocation, Fr. Theodot was a great soldier of Christ, and was unshaken. The communist authorities arrested Fr. Theodot in September 1929, after which he was condemned to eight years in concentration camps in the far north: first on the Kola peninsula on the White Sea, then the "Island of Death": Kond, and a year later to Solovky. In the fall of 1932 he was transferred to the camps of Ukhta-Pechersk for further punishment. Following his release in 1937, Fr. Theodot returned to the Donbas area in Ukraine and established himself in Kirovograd. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael (Khoroshy)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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