Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky – now known as Luke of Simferopol, Saint Luke the Blessed Surgeon, or Saint Luke of Crimea – was a Russian surgeon, spiritual writer, a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, and archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea from May 1946 until his death. He was a laureate of the Stalin Prize in medicine in 1946.

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27 April 1877

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25 May 1996

the Holy Synod, Russian Orthodox Church

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