canonisation date

01.11.1981

Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

function

archbishop

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Volyn‐Zhytomyr OR eparchymore on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]

academic distinctions

Sacred Orthodox Theology Candidate

honorary titles

Order of St Vladimir (Imperial Russia) 3rd degree with swordmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.04.10]

nationality

Russian

date and place
of death

27.11.1937

Ufatoday: Ufa city reg., Bashkortostan rep., Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]

details of death

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

14.03.1879

Yaransktoday: Yaransk urban, Yaransk reg., Kirov oblast, Russia
more on
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[access: 2023.07.16]

alt. dates and places
of birth

02.03.1879

religious vows

02.07.1910 (permanent)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

05.07.1910

positions held

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Great Purge 1937: „Great Terror” (also «Great Purge», also called „Yezhovshchyna” after the name of the then head of the NKVD) — a Russian state action of political terror, planned and directed against millions of innocent victims — national minorities, wealthier peasants (kulaks), people considered opponents political, army officers, the greatest intensity of which took place from 09.1936 to 08.1938. It reached its peak starting in the summer of 1937, when Art. 58‐14 of the Penal Code about „counter‐revolutionary sabotage” was passed , which became the basis for the „legalization” of murders, and on 02.07.1937 when the highest authorities of Russia, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, issued a decree on the initiation of action against the kulaks. Next a number of executive orders of the NKVD followed, including No. 00439 of 25.07.1937, starting the liquidation of 25,000‐42,000 Germans living in Russia (mainly the so‐called Volga Germans); No. 00447 of 30.07.1937, beginning the liquidation of „anti‐Russian elements”, and No. 00485[2] of 11.08.1937, ordering the murder of 139,835 people of Polish nationality (the latter was the largest operation of this type — encompassed 12.5% of all those murdered during the «Great Purge», while Poles constituted 0.4% of the population). In the summer of 1937 Polish Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands, Anzer Island and ITL BelbaltLag were locked in prison cells (some in Sankt Petersburg). Next in a few kangaroo, murderous Russian trials (on 09.10.1937, 25.11.1937, among others) run by so‐called «NKVD Troika» all were sentenced to death. They were subsequently executed by a single shot to the back of the head. The murders took place either in Sankt Petersburg prison or directly in places of mass murder, e.g. Sandarmokh or Levashov Wilderness, where their bodies were dumped into the ditches. Other priests were arrested in the places they still ministered in and next murdered in local NKVD headquarters (e.g. in Minsk in Belarus), after equally genocidal trials run by aforementioned «NKVD Troika» kangaroo courts.

Moscow (Butyrki): Harsh transit and interrogation prison in Moscow — for political prisoners — where Russians held and murdered thousands of Poles. Founded prob. in XVII century. In XIX century many Polish insurgents (Polish uprisings of 1831 and 1863) were held there. During Communist regime a place of internment for political prisoners prior to a transfer to Russian slave labour complex Gulag. During the Great Purge c. 20,000 inmates were held there at any time (c. 170 in every cell). Thousands were murdered. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.05.01])

Forced exile: One of the standard Russian forms of repression. The prisoners were usually taken to a small village in the middle of nowhere — somewhere in Siberia, in far north or far east — dropped out of the train carriage or a cart, left out without means of subsistence or place to live. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20])

Zhytomyr (prison): Russian investigative prison known for cruel interrogation methods used by the Russians. Execution site as well.

sources

personal:
pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.07.16], drevo-info.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.07.16], ru.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.07.16]
bibliographical:
„Hierachy, clergy and employees of the Orthodox Church in the 19th‐21st centuries within the borders of the Second Polish Republic and post–war Poland”, Fr Gregory Sosna, M. Antonine Troc-Sosna, Warsaw–Bielsk Podlaski 2017
original images:
commons.wikimedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.07.16], drevo-info.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.07.16], martyrs.pstbi.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.07.16], commons.wikimedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.07.16], vyatkapereprava.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.07.16]