Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski

Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski was born in the Vilna region of Belarus to Belarusian Catholic parents.^[3]

In his adulthood, he was consecrated as bishop within a continuation to the American Orthodox Catholic Church,^[4] and enthroned as archbishop of the Old Orthodox Catholic Patriarchate of America.^[5] By 1972, Ryzy-Ryski was excommunicated from the American Orthodox Catholic Church by Walter Myron Propheta after having established the American World Patriarchates.^[4][6]

During his leadership over the American World Patriarchates, the Peoples University of the Americas was founded in 1968.^[3]