Metropolitan Wasyly or Basil,[1][2] OC (secular name William Fedak;[3] November 1, 1909 – January 10, 2005) was the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC) from 1985 until his death in 2005.
Metropolitan Wasyly (Vasylii) was born Vasyl' Fedak on November 1, 1909, in Kadubivtsi in Austrian-ruled northern Bukovina (now Chernivtsi Oblast in Ukraine).
Then in 1985, the 17th Sobor of the UOCC selected Wasyly to be its metropolitan and primate with the honorific His Beatitude (because he was the head of his own church.
As primate, he was the spiritual leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada and Chancellor of its seminary, St. Andrew's College.
With his wife Parskeviya, he had three sons: Eugene (who has served on the church's Consistory board twice), Yaroslaw and Emil.