Theodore of Uman

Holy New Martyr Theodore of Uman, called Theodore Pavlovych Slobidsky in the world, was a monk and died a martyr in the prison at Uman on 15 November 1937. He was born in 1869 in the village of Rohova, in the Uman district. He was executed in the Uman prison and was rehabilitated after death in 1989. The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church canonized him on 28 October 1997 as a monk-⁠martyr, among the new martyrs and confessors of the Uman land.