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[[Image:Agios Loukas.jpg|right|thumb|210px| Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) of Simferopol]][[Image:LukeSimferopol2.jpeg|right|thumb|230px|St Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) of Simferopol]][[Image:St. Luke Archbishop of Simferopol 2.jpg|frame|right|Photograph of St. Luke Archbishop of Simferopol]] Saint '''Luke, Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea, the Blessed Surgeon''', was born ''Valentin Felixovich Voino-Yasenetsky'' (''Валентин Феликсович Войно-Ясенецкий, Βαλεντίν Βόϊνο-Γιασενέτσκι''), [[April 14]], 1877 and died [[June 11]], 1961.
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 practising 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.
