Background
He was born in the village White Lepelskaya in Vitebsky province in the family of uniate priest. His father died when he was 6 years old.
He was born in the village White Lepelskaya in Vitebsky province in the family of uniate priest. His father died when he was 6 years old.
A location organist taught Zubko, then he entered Polotsk seminary in 1809. He continued in Polotsk jesuitcal academy in 1816, and finished it successfully with the degree of candidate of philosophy. Then Antony studied in Wilensky seminary under the Wilensky university, where he got the degree of master of theology.
He was appointed a teacher of logic, rhetoric, clerical and general history and moral theology in Polotsk seminary in 1822. Zubko was a priest of Polotsk uniate cathedral in 1824. He founded the first uniate seminary of Zirovisky. From 1833 he served as a bishop in Brest, the vicar of Lithuanian uniate diocese. Antony Zubko made friends with I. Semashka, Antony was his supporter and working collaborator to unite uniatism with orthodoxy. Zubko signed an act of unification of the uniat and orthodox churches in 1839. He was a orthodox minsky bishop in 1840, and an archbishop in 1841. Zubko wrote the article “About greek-uniate church in Russia” in 1864. M.W. Kayalovich named him «an unusual supporter» of orthodoxy. He moved to Zhyrovitsky monastery before his death.