Paul Krasnokutsky

Saint Paul Mikhailovich Krasnokutsky, hieromartyr, was a priest in the Kharkiv diocese and received the martyr's death during the Soviet persecution, after 1930. He is venerated as a local saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and commemorated on 19 May.

He was born in 1883 in the village of Pokrovskoye in the Chuguev district, Kharkiv governorate. He was a priest in the village of Zarozhnoye, Chuguev district. On 4 February 1930 he was sentenced to ten years in a labour camp. He was shot, but the date of his death is not known.

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.