He spent much of his life fleeing Russian forces, traveling the globe and stirring up revolutionary inklings in his wake. Not exactly the image you might expect from an orthodox priest. Born Andrii Humnytsky in what is now central Ukraine in 1832, this guy was destined to become an Orthodox priest like his father. Rachael Myrow: Her deeply anti-religious family was put off by this…Jars Balan: … bearded orthodox priest in wearing cassocks and things. Rachael Myrow: Honcharenko died at the age of 84 in 1916, a little over a year after his wife.