Ihor Isichenko

Ihor Isichenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Ісіченко; from his birth name Юрій Андрійович Ісіченко; born 28 January 1956 in Bashkiria), is a former Ukraine Orthodox archbishop, who converted to Catholicism in 2020.

Ihor Isichenko was Archbishop of the Diocese of Kharkiv - Poltava (north-eastern Ukraine) between 1993 and 2020, of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

[1] He is professor emeritus at the National University of Kharkiv, specialist in medieval literature and in relations between Catholics and Orthodoxes.

[2] In 2020, Isichenko converted to Catholicism and joined, together with his diocese, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

[3] In 2022, he retired with the title of Archbishop Emeritus,[4] and went to work within the Ukrainian Catholic University.