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*{{note|1}} [http://www.synod.com/synod/2006/9metvitaly.html Скончался Высокопреосвященнейший митрополит Виталий] 25 September 2006*{{note|2}} "Trudnik" means <div class="volunteer laborerreferences-small"<sup>[http://www.synod.com/01newstucture/pagesen/articles/frvladimir.html] <references /sup> or "lay laborer"<sup>[http://www.synod.com/01newstucture/pagesen/news04/vladikayubiley.html] </supdiv>.
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His Eminence the Most Reverend '''Vitaly (Ustinov) of New York''' was the first hierarch of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] from 1986 to 2001. His Eminence retired as First Hierarch in 2001, and lived at Holy Transfiguration Skete in Mansonville, Québec. His Eminence reposed in the Lord at the age of 97 in Mansonville on [[September 25]], 2006{{.<ref|1}}>[http://www.synod.com/synod/2006/9metvitaly.html Скончался Высокопреосвященнейший митрополит Виталий] 25 September 2006</ref>
== Biography ==
In 1938, he entered the Monastery of St Job in the Carpathians.
In 1939, trudnik{{<ref|2}} >"Trudnik" means "volunteer laborer" <sup>[http://www.synod.com/01newstucture/pagesen/articles/frvladimir.html]</sup> or "lay laborer" <sup>[http://www.synod.com/01newstucture/pagesen/news04/vladikayubiley.html]</sup>. </ref> Rostislav was [[tonsure]]d to the rassophore with the name 'Vitaly,' and a year later was tonsured to the minor schema.
In 1941, in the city of Bratislava, Fr. Vitaly was [[ordination|ordained]] by [[Metropolitan]] Seraphim of Berlin and Germany to the rank of [[hieromonk]] and assigned to minister to two towns on the Polish border.
==References==
[[Category:Bishops]]
