Vasyl Slotvynsky of Nerubaika

Priest Vasyl Slotvynsky (1848-1919), also called Vasyl of Nerubaika, was a parish priest in the village of Nerubaika and was killed by the Bolsheviks on 6 May 1919. He was glorified locally as a hieromartyr in the Oleksandriia diocese (Ukrainian Orthodox Church) by decision of the Synod of 9 December 2020; he is commemorated on 23 April (6 May), the day of his death.

Vasyl Kyrylovych Slotvynsky graduated from the Odesa seminary in 1877. He served first in the Kirovohrad region, at the church of Saint Joseph the Betrothed in the village of Berezivka, and from 1904 at the Kazan Icon church in Nerubaika. He was also a teacher of religion at the parish school. Few details of his life survive.

On 6 May 1919, at seventy-⁠one, Father Vasyl received a martyr's death at the hands of the Bolsheviks. No more is known of the circumstances of his death or of his burial place.

On 9 December 2020 the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church blessed his local veneration in the Oleksandriia diocese. On 21 June 2021, on the day of the Holy Spirit, Metropolitan Onuphry led the rite of glorification in the Protection Cathedral in Oleksandriia.