Cyprian Manko

Venerable Cyprian Manko, in the world Kosma Manko, was a hieromonk of the Holy Mountains and is venerated as a local saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He was born in 1811 in the Kupiansk district, Kharkiv governorate, and fell asleep in 1874.

He was born into the family of inhabitants of a military settlement in the Kupiansk district. He learned his letters in a home school. On 12 February 1835 he became a novice at the Glinsk hermitage, where he made friends with the novice Gregory. There he was tonsured a rassophore. In 1844 he moved, together with the treasurer, the hieromonk Arsenius, the novice Gregory and other brethren, to the Holy Mountains hermitage, then reviving. Here he was given the obedience of the choir.

On 30 June 1844 he was tonsured a monk with the name Cyprian. On 16 August 1844 he was ordained hierodeacon by Bishop Innocent in the village of Bogorodichnoe. On 15 July 1845 he was ordained hieromonk. On 5 October 1846 he was appointed dean of the monastery. For his labours, on 15 August 1849 he received the priestly belt. On 10 September 1855 he was appointed confessor of the brethren, and his spiritual child was Ioannicius (Averkiev). In memory of the Crimean War he received the pectoral cross on the Vladimir ribbon. On 25 April 1862 he received the golden pectoral cross. He was buried near the underground church of Saints Anthony and Theodosius of Kiev.

On 8 May 2008 the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church decided on his local canonization in the diocese of Donetsk, in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Holy Mountains. The glorification service took place on 12 July 2008, during the visit of Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv to the Holy Mountains Lavra, in the Dormition cathedral. He is venerated only locally.