Demetrius Strokan

Holy Martyr Demetrius Strokan served the Orthodox Church in Ukraine as a church warden and received the crown of martyrdom in 1930, during the Soviet persecution of the Church.

The sources consulted give no details of his birth, family or ministry; only the year of his death and his place in the synaxis are recorded.

He is honoured on 13 May by the old calendar (26 May by the new), in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Cherkasy. In 1998 the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church glorified this synaxis of one hundred and four clergy and laypeople of the Cherkasy region who suffered for the faith, most of them in 1937 and 1938. The Council of Bishops of the Russian Church in 2000 placed him among the New Martyrs and Confessors, as a martyr glorified earlier.