Background
Ivan Brutski was born in a wealthy farmer’s family in Belavusha (now Stolin Raion in Brest Voblast), West Belarus.
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Having avoided repatriation in 1947, Ivan Brutski graduated from a gymnasium in Hannover.
Career
After annexation of West Belarus by the Soviet Union in 1939, Brutski’s father was in 1940 exiled to Kazakhstan. In 1943 the young Ivan Brutski have been sent by the Nazis to Germany as an ostarbeiter. He then immigrated to Canada and participated there in The local Belarusian social and life and in the parish life of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
In 1962, he immigrated to the United States. and became an active member in different political and religious organizations in Cleveland and Detroit.
In 1979, he was ordained to the diaconate and later that same year to the priesthood. He graduated from the Saint Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary in 1981.
Shortly after that, he become archbishop and in 1984, Archbishop Iziaslav was elevated to the rank of metropolitan and elected to be the Primate of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
Membership
As a member of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and an active member of the community, he was delegated to the Church Council (Sabor) of this jurisdiction which took place in May 1972 in Highland Park, New Jersey.
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Religion
Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church