Anfim Goshchuk

Anfim Goshchuk was a hieromonk born on 6 November 1964 at Tashkent, who died on 13 February 2008. He lived on Athos from 1990 and is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Nestor in the world, the son of the priest Dimitry and Anna, he grew up in a pious and obedient family; after his mother's death, his father took monastic vows with the name Dorotheus and was confessor of the convents of Tashkent. Nestor wished to enter pilot school, like his brothers, but did not pass the medical examination. On 1 June 1987 he was tonsured a monk with the name Anfim and a month later ordained deacon at the Holy Trinity-⁠St Sergius Lavra; after a year he moved to the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, just reopened, where on 9 July 1989 he was ordained. Wishing to serve in the garden of the Mother of God, on 18 July 1990, with the blessing of Patriarch Pimen, he reached the Holy Mountain. He left thirty-⁠four short spiritual counsels, among them: it is best to weep over your unworthiness. He reposed on 13 February 2008.