Background
MAKARIY, Mikhail was born in 1884.
MAKARIY, Mikhail was born in 1884.
1911 graduate Kiev Theological Academy.
From 1917 librarian, Ukraine Academy of Sciences. 1945 ordained monk with rank of archpreist and name of Makariy and appointed Bishop of L’vov and Ternopol’. 1946 ordained archbishop.
1946-1949 worked on merger of Uniates with Moscow Patriarchate. 1949-1951 also vicar of Uzhgorod and Mukachevo Eparchy. 1949 deleg of Russian Orthodox Church to All-Union Peace Defense Conference;organized Volhynian Theological Seminary, Lutsk.
1952 took part in Zagorsk Peace Conference attended by reps of all churches and religous bodies. 1957-1959 professor ordinarius, Chair of Patrology, Warsaw Orthodox Theological Seminary.