Metropolitan Basil was born Ivan Bodnarchuk in village of Ivane-Puste,[1] Tarnopol Voivodeship, Poland.
With liberation of western parts of Ukraine and arrival of the Soviet authorities, on 9 July 1945 Bodnarchuk was arrested and on 13 November sentenced by the Military Tribunal of Chortkiv city to 10 years of imprisonment and 5 years of deprivation of all civil rights.
He served his sentence first in Kharkiv Factory "Serp and Molot" until 1946[2] and then in the city of Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
[3] In 1990 Bishop Basil was appointed to the diocese of Ternopil and Buchach by the Holiest Patriarch of Kyiv and all Ukraine Mstyslav (Skrypnyk).
[4] On 19 October 1997 Bishop Basil along with his diocese switched to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate where he served until his death in 2006.