Dimitrii Tsubera

Dimitrii Tsubera was a schemahierodeacon from Subcarpathian Rus, born in 1905 at Kolodnoe, today in the Transcarpathia region, who died on 12 June 1987, after almost sixty years in St Panteleimon Monastery. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Dmitry Ivanovich in the world, he went to Athos in 1928 and was received at St Panteleimon, where on 16 March 1929 he was tonsured. His first obedience was the carpenter's workshop; from 1934 to 1945 he was steward, from 1946 to 1956 antiprosopos, from 1956 to 1972 steward again, and from 20 September 1972 antiprosopos again at Karyes. Father David, as he was called, was the soul of the monastery. For almost half a century he defended the interests of the monastery, impoverished of men and money, almost alone; he knew eight languages, had audiences with high Soviet officials and interested them in the monastery's problems. In June 1962, at the celebrations of the thousand years of Athos, the Moscow Patriarchate gave him the medal of St Vladimir. On 2 January 1983, in deep old age, he received the schema with the name Dimitrii. He reposed on 12 June 1987.