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February 9-10, 1942 - Synod of Bishops in Pinsk. Metropolitan Dionisij (Orthodox Church of Poland under the Ecumenical Patriarch) blesses the meeting of the Ukrainian Episcopate in Pinsk (Byelorussia) at the First Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) which restores canonical ties and unity with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. During this historical meeting, Archimandrite Nikanor Abramovych (February 9) and Archimandrite Ihor Huba (February 10) are ordained by Archbishop Polikarp Sikorsky, Archbishop Olexander Inozemtsev and Bishop (later Metropolitan of Warsaw) Yuri Korenastov. Mitropolit Dionisij assigns them to serve as joint vicars of Archbishop Polikarp with responsibilities in Kyiv. Seated [left to right] are Vladykas Oleksandr Inozemtsiv and Polykarp Sikorsky [later Metropolitan of the UAOC]. Standing [left to right] are Vladykas Nikanor Abramovych, Yuriy Korenastov and Ihor Huba.
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1944 - Synod of Bishops of the UAOC, March 1944, at Warsaw, Poland. Seated and wearing white klobuks are, from left to right, Metropolitan Dionisij Valedynskyj of the Orthodox Church of Poland and Metropolitan Polikarp Sikorsky, head of the UAOC from 1942. After World War II, many of the bishops of the UAOC fled to the West, via Germany, some eventually reaching the United States, where they headed various jurisdictions of the UAOC. The UAOC in Ukraine is liquidated by the Soviets with the assistance of the Patriarchate of Moscow. Any UAOC hierarchs or clergy remaining in Ukraine who refused to join the Russian Church were executed or sent to concentration camps. In the next several years, the same action is taken against the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Western Ukraine and Transcarpathia.
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1946 - Synod of Bishops of the Diaspora in Germany. Seated [left to right] are Bishops Hennadij Shryprykevych, Ihor Huba, Polikarp Sikorsky, Mychayil Khoroshy and Sylvester Hayevsky. Standing [left to right] are Bishops Hryhorij Ohijchuk, Volodymyr Malets' and Platon Artemyuk.
1947 - Synod of Bishops in Germany. Seated third from left is Archbishop Hryhorij Ohijchuk. Also present were Metropolitan Oleksandr Inozemtsiv and Metropolitan Polikarp Sikorsky and Bishop [later Patriarch] Mstyslav Skrypnik.
1980's Chicago - His Beatitude Metropolitan Hrihorij Ohijchuk and Archbishop Andrei Prazsky along with the other members of the Holy Synod of the Diaspora.
1982 - Pictured together after the celebration of the Divine Liturgy are Metropolitan Andrei Prazsky (left) who was the successor to His Beatitude Metropolitan Hrihorij Ohijchuk (right). In a Gramota signed by Metropolitan Hrihorij Ohijchuk and Bishops Anthony, Makarius (of Houston), Alexis and Timofi, and dated July 3, 1982, the Synod of the UAOC elevated Metropolitan-Archbishop Andrei Prazsky: "...to be Metropolitan-Archbishop, Coadjutor with right of succession U.A.O.C." The elevation took place at Pokrova Cathedral in Chicago, IL.
1989 - His Beatitude Metropolitan Alexis Nizza (left) pictured with Pope Shenuda (second from left) and his predecessor, His Beatitude Andrei Prazsky (third from left).
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