Damian Buchinsky

Holy New Martyr Damian Buchinsky, a priest, was born on 14 July 1874 and lived at Uman, where he was shot in prison on 1 November 1937. Together with the priests Nikita Hanzha, Diomedes Kryzhanovsky and Nikon Kogutovsky he was arrested on 10 October 1937, at a gathering of believers and clergy on the edge of Uman, where they were asking the authorities to return the church of the Holy Trinity, closed three years before. The four were condemned to death in the same case and shot together.

The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church canonized him on 28 October 1997, among the new martyrs and confessors of the Uman land.