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Venerable

Andronicus of Zverinets

A monastic saint associated with the Zverinets caves in Kyiv.

Era
unknown

Life

Holy Venerable Andronicus of Zverinets was a monk and ascetic in the caves of the Zverinets monastery in Kyiv. He is commemorated in the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of Zverinets.

The Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael at Zverinets, in Kyiv, has caves in which its venerable fathers struggled. The calendar of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church calls Andronicus a "cave-⁠dweller" (pecherynk) and a monk. The Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of Zverinets is kept on the fifth Sunday of Great Lent; in 2025, on that day, the Primate of the Church glorified Filaret Kochubei, abbot of the monastery, in the same synaxis. No other details of Andronicus' life survive in the sources consulted.