Anthony Gorban

Saint Anthony, venerable martyr, in the world Anton Artemovich Gorban, was a hieromonk in Kharkiv and received the death of a martyr in 1937, in the time of the Soviet persecution. He is a locally venerated saint of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, in the diocese of Kharkiv. His commemoration is on 19 May.

He was born on 22 January 1866 in the village of Gorbani in the Pereyaslav district, Poltava governorate. Even before the revolution he received monastic tonsure and priesthood. He served in various churches of Kharkiv, without a parish of his own.

When he was arrested, on 27 November 1937, Hieromonk Anthony was a priest without a parish and lived in Kharkiv. He was accused of subversive activity against the Soviet power and on 3 December was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on 22 December in Kharkiv. He was rehabilitated on 29 March 1989.

On 22 June 1993, by a decision of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, he was locally canonized in the diocese of Kharkiv, in the Synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Sloboda land. The service of glorification took place during the visit to Kharkiv, on 3 and 4 July 1993, of the primate of the Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and all Ukraine, in the cathedral of the Annunciation in the city.