Peter Doroshenko

Saint Peter Doroshenko, hieromartyr, was an archpriest, born at Chuhuiv in the Kharkiv governorate in 1882, and shot at Kharkiv on 17 January 1938. He is venerated as a local saint in the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, in the diocese of Kharkiv. His commemoration is on 19 May, in the Synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Sloboda land.

He was born on 5 August 1882 at Chuhuiv. He received the priesthood in 1905 or 1906. He served in the suburb of Chuhuiv, Preobrazhenka, at a Renovationist church of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow", because he had passed from the Russian Orthodox Church to the so-⁠called Renovationist "church". This was a schismatic movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

On 23 December 1937 (according to other reports, on 28 December) he was arrested and sentenced to death. He was shot on 17 January 1938, at Kharkiv.

First family, in the Russian Orthodox Church: his wife, Martha Petrovna Doroshenko (born 1886), and children Nikolai (1906), Viktor (1910) and Georgy (1912). Second family, in the Renovationist "church": his wife Anna (born 1900) and children Raisa (1921) and Anna (1926).

On 22 June 1993 the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine decided on his local canonization in the diocese of Kharkiv. The service of glorification took place during the visit to Kharkiv, on 3 and 4 July 1993, of the primate of the Church, Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv and all Ukraine, in the cathedral of the Annunciation.