His Holiness Bishop Ambrosy ( Andrei Popovich ) is the first Orthodox Old Rite – White Well Metropolitan Bishop.

            Bishop Ambrosy, who was of a Greek origin, was born in 1791. On October 28, 1846, he converted to Old Rite Orthodoxy, event which took place at the White Well ( in Ukraine nowadays) at the monk monastery.

            At the request of Russian Tsar, Nikolai I, Bishop Ambrosy took the orders , on 26^th  July 1848, only to leave for Cilly (Slovenia nowadays) afterwards, where he lived for 15 years in solitude. Meanwhile, the monk monastery of White Well was closed for a period. To his exile, the Bishop anointed 2 Bishops – they were Cyril from Mainos, and Arkady I of Slava, ordained 5 priests, and 3 deacons.