Yurij Kalistchuk

From 1971 to 1973 he was assistant conductor under Archbishop Boris (Yakovkevych) and later Pavlo Macenko for the Theology Student Choir.

In 1984 he completed a Bachelor of Education degree at the University of Toronto and received an Ontario's Teacher's Certificate.

In Hamilton, Ontario, on July 17, 1988, he was ordained a priest, and was assigned as rector of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral in Winnipeg.

On July 18, 2010, at the 20th Sobor of the UOCC, Archbishop Yurij was nominated to succeed John (Stinka) as the sixth Metropolitan of Winnipeg and Canada and primate of the church.

[1] The ban included prohibiting any clergyman or member of the Consistory Board to be in the vicinity of Filaret during his visit.

The ban was publicly criticized and ignored as a banquet honouring Patriarch Filaret was held at St. Volydymyr Cultural Centre in Oakville on April 21, 2012, where Filaret toured the cemetery, chapel, and met with leaders of the Ukrainian Canadian community including Paul Grod, President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.