Philip Ordinets

Saint Philip Ordinets, martyr, was a choir director at the church of Saint Nicholas in Kharkiv and received a martyr's death by shooting on 15 April 1938. He is venerated as a local saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. His commemoration is on 19 May (1 June).

He was born on 1 June 1888 in Miropolye, Kursk governorate. He lived in Kharkiv, with his wife and four children. He was choir director at the church of Saint Nicholas on Lysa Hora. In March 1938 he was arrested and sentenced to death. He was shot on 15 April 1938 in Kharkiv.

On 22 June 1993, by decision of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, his local canonization was decided in the diocese of Kharkiv, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Sloboda region. The glorification service took place during the visit to Kharkiv, on 3 and 4 July 1993, of the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine, in the Annunciation cathedral of the city. He is venerated only locally.