Reverend Agapius Honcharenko[a] (August 31, 1832 – May 5, 1916,[1] born Andrii Onufriiovych Humnytskyi)[b] was a Ukrainian patriot and exiled Orthodox Christian priest.

Born to a prominent Cossack family (he was a descendant of Ivan Bohun) in Kryva [uk], Tarascha county, in Kyiv Oblast, Honcharenko was the first Ukrainian political émigré to arrive in the United States.

[2] After his escape, he traveled to London to rejoin the Kolokol staff until the newspaper discontinued publication upon the freeing of the serfs, then returned to Athens again.

The Ukrainian supplement titled Svoboda (Свобода : Freedom) was the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in the U.S.[2] After founding a farm, "Ukraina Ranch", located in Hayward, California,[4] in 1873, he continued to publish political literature, which was smuggled into Czarist Russia.

These actions made him a thorn in the side of pro-Tsarist Russians, who called his writings "the drivelling [sic] of a half crazy old man.