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Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Hilarion Zhukov

Priest

Priest born in 1863 at Chabanovka, who died in 1938; a local saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Feast
May 19old style June 1
Reposed
193820th century
Place
Kharkiv
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Hilarion Nikolayevich Zhukov, hieromartyr, was a priest in the Kharkiv diocese and received the martyr's death by shooting on 16 January 1938, during the Soviet persecution. He is venerated as a local saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and commemorated on 19 May.

He was born in 1863 in the village of Chabanovka (today in the Luhansk region). He served in the village of Osinovka, near Chuguev. He was arrested on 28 December 1937 and sentenced to death. He was shot on 16 January 1938 in Kharkiv.

On 22 June 1993 the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church decided on his local canonization in the Kharkiv diocese, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Sloboda land. The service of glorification took place on 3 and 4 July 1993 in the Annunciation cathedral of Kharkiv, during the visit of Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and all Ukraine.

His canonization is local and not that of the whole Orthodox Church.

Commemorated the same day May 19