Stephen Andronov

Saint Stephen Alexandrovich Andronov, hieromartyr, was a priest in the Kharkiv diocese and received the martyr's death by shooting on 13 November 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 on 15 September 1867 in the village of Zolochiv in the Kharkiv governorate. He was ordained priest in 1923, and from 1931 he lived and served in the village of Pryshyb, Balakliya district, Kharkiv region. He was arrested on 17 October 1937 and sentenced to death. He was shot on 13 November 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.