Mytrofan Yavdas— was a Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox protoiereus (archpriest) and religious author who suffered persecution and imprisonment while living in the Soviet Union.
Mitrofan Yavdas was born in town of Yakimovo, Poltava Oblast on 3 June 1903.
[1] On 8 September 1929, he was arrested by the OGPU as part of a Soviet anti-religious campaign and confined in the Poltava prison.
[1] During the years 1952–1953 he organized religious courses and was editor of the "Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Bulletin".
[2] Potoiereus Mitrofan Yavdas was the author of a number of religious books including: Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1956), How the Bolsheviks Tortured the Clergy, Protodeaconn Potiyenko Basil, The Brothers V. & M. Chehivsky, UAOC Priest Fr.