Supplicatory Canon and Akathist to Saint Luke the Surgeon

Doctor of Medicine, Professor, and State Prize winner, since 1944 he was the Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, and later of Simferopol and the Crimea.

While he was serving the church as an Archbishop, he was also practicing as a surgeon and taught and published many books and articles on regional anesthesia and surgery.

He is now known to be a world-famous pioneering surgeon.