Theodosius of Sviatohirsk

Venerable Theodosius of Sviatohirsk was a hieromonk, a monk of the Glinsk hermitage, who died in 1850 at the Sviatohirsk hermitage. He is venerated as a local saint in the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, in the diocese of Donetsk, in the Synaxis of the saints of Sviatohirsk.

He struggled at the Glinsk hermitage and was ordained hieromonk. Under the spiritual guidance of Hegumen Philaret he acquired the gift of the unceasing Jesus Prayer of the mind and heart. In 1844 he moved, with the treasurer, Hieromonk Arsenius, and other brethren, to the Sviatohirsk hermitage, then being renewed. Here he was given the obedience of confessor of the brethren and of the pilgrims who came.

His spiritual children were the saints Archimandrite Herman (Klitsa), the schemamonk John the Recluse, the confessor Hieromonk Ioannicius (Averkiev) and others. He departed to the Lord in 1850.

On 8 May 2008 the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine decided on his local canonization in the diocese of Donetsk, in the Synaxis of the saints of Sviatohirsk. The service of glorification took place during the visit to the Sviatohirsk Lavra, on 12 July 2008, of the primate of the Church, Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv and all Ukraine, in the Dormition cathedral.