THE CANONICAL EPISCOPAL LINEAGE OF
HIS EMINENCE
METROPOLITAN-ARCHBISHOP YAROSLAW MICHAEL SEREDA

The clergy of the Orthodox Community of the Holy Spirit Canada enjoy apostolic & canonical lineage from the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church through the ministry of Metropolitan-Archbishop XANDREW (Prazsky) of thrice-blessed memory(+1990), who was ordained to the episcopate by Metropolitan XHRYHORIJ (Ohijchuk) and Bishop XHENNADIJ (Skryprykevich) of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in 1969.

These two UAOC hierarchs were themselves ordained bishops in Kyiv in 1942 by bishops of the Polish Orthodox Church (in reality a church for the Ukrainian Orthodox people living within the political boundaries of Poland). The Polish Orthodox Church received its succession from Patriarch XGREGORIOS IV of Antioch and several bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church (including St. Anthony Kharphovitsky, later Metropolitan of Kyiv, and following the Russian Revolution, founding senior hierarch of the synodal Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia), who ordained Metropolitan XDIONISIJ (Valedynsky) of Warsaw, Poland, in 1913 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

It is from XDIONISIJ of thrice-blessed memory, alongside other canonical bishops, that the UAOC was given her Orthodox apostolic succession with the ordination of the new UAOC bishops in Kyiv in 1942, including XHRYHORIJ and XHENNADIJ.

His All-Holiness XGregorious IV Patriarch of Antioch and All the East in 1913 was the chief ordaining bishop of Metropolitan-Archbishop XDIONISIJ (Valedynsky) who in 1932 was the chief ordaining Bishop of Metropolitan XPOLIKARP (Sikorsky) who in 1942 was the chief ordaining Bishop of Metropolitan-Archbishop XNIKANOR (Abramoviych) who in 1942 was the chief ordaining Bishop of XHRYHORIJ (Ohijchuk), Metropolitan-Archbishop of the Patriarchal Throne of Kiev and All-Rus Ukraine in exile.

XHRYHORIJ (Ohijchuk), in 1969 was the chief ordaining Bishop of Metropolitan-Archbishop XANDREW (Prazsky), Metropolitan Archbishop Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. successor in the Apostolic Lineage of Saint Peter.

XANDREW (Prazsky), in 1973 was the chief ordaining Bishop of XEMMANUEL (Silva) who in 1992 was the chief ordaining Bishop of Bishop XKEVIN (Collins) who in 1998 was the chief ordaining Bishop of Metropolitan-Archbishop XANDREI (Bazilsky-Brennan), Primate of the Orthodox Church of Canada and Metropolitan of All Canada.

XANDREI (Bazilsky-Brennan), in 1999 was the chief ordaining Bishop of XYAROSLAW Michael (Sereda) Who is Primate Metropolitan-Archbishop for the Orthodox Community of the Holy Spirit Canada UAOC Inc.