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In 1940, he became Bishop of Kholm in German-occupied Poland.
In the face of the advance of the Red Army, he fled west and in 1947 settled in Winnipeg, in Western Canada, where shortly afterward he became Metropolitan of the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada]]. Throughout his long career,in addition to church work, Ohienko contributed to scholarship and other areas of Ukrainian culture.
As a scholar, Ohienko made contributions to Ukrainian linguistics, church history, and the history of Ukrainian culture. He published books on the history of Ukrainian linguistics (1907), the history of Ukrainian printing (1925), the pre-Christian beliefs of the Ukrainian people (1965), the history of the Ukrainian literary language (1950),and published several studies of Ukrainian church history during the Cossack era. He also published a general history of the Ukrainian Church (1942), a two volume work on Saints Cyril and Methodius (1927-8), edited several semi-scholarly journals, and compiled a multi-volume etymological-semantic dictionary of the Ukrainian language which was only published after his death. Most of the works first published in Poland were reprinted in Winnipeg during the Cold War, and then, again, in Ukraine after the re-establishment of independence in 1991.
