Platon

Platon, born Paul Kulbusch (also spelled Kuhlbusch or Kuldbush; – 14 January 1919), was an Estonian bishop and the first Orthodox saint of Estonian ethnicity.

History Paul Kulbusch was born on in Pootsi, Pärnumaa, in the southwest of present-day Estonia (then part of Imperial Russia). Kulbusch graduated in 1894 from the St. Petersburg Theological Academy with a master's degree and soon became a priest at the Estonian Orthodox Church of Saint Isidore in St. Petersburg,

Platon and the two murdered priests were canonised as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1982, 12 August 2000 by Russian Orthodox Church and by the Patriarchate of Constantinople on 15 September 2000.