John Fyodorov

Saint John Petrovich Fyodorov, hieromartyr, was a priest in the Kharkiv diocese and received the martyr's death by shooting on 7 September 1937, 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 1871 in the village of Staroye Seslavino, in the Kozlov district of the Tambov governorate. He was ordained in 1930 and served in the village of Andreyevka, Balakliya district, Kharkiv region. He was arrested on 3 August 1937 and sentenced to death. He was shot on 7 September 1937 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.