Metropolitan Iziasłaŭ[a] (22 January 1926 – 26 November 2007, born Ivan Daniłavič Brucki)[b][1] was the primate of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
Ivan Brucki was born in a wealthy farmer's family in Biełavuša (now Stolin Raion in Brest Voblast), West Belarus.
After annexation of West Belarus by the Soviet Union in 1939, Brucki's father was in 1940 exiled to Kazakhstan.
In 1962, he immigrated to the U.S. and became an active member in different political and religious organizations in Cleveland and Detroit.
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.