Kyrill Yonchev

The Most Reverend Kyrill (secular name Ilia Manchov Yonchev, Bulgarian: Илия Манчов Йончев; February 26, 1920 – June 17, 2007) was the archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of Western Pennsylvania and Bulgarian Diocese.

A short time later, he was assigned pastor of Saint George Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Toledo, OH.

In the late 1950s, Metropolitan Andrei (Petkov), leader of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia's Bulgarian Diocese of North and South America and Australia, petitioned to be accepted into the Russian Metropolia but had been rebuffed by them for unclear reasons, so in 1964 he petitioned and was approved by the Holy Synod of the Church of Bulgaria to be readmitted to the Bulgarian episcopacy.

One of his clergy, Archimandrite Kyrill (Yonchev), disagreed with his decision and was consecrated by the bishops of the ROCOR to serve as head of the Bulgarian Diocese in Exile.

[2] Archbishop Kyrill died on June 17, 2007, after suffering from ill health for the previous year.