Alexander Ipatov

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Ipatov (1874 to 1918) was a deacon at the Saviour church in Solikamsk and was shot by soldiers of the Red Army on 21 September 1918, on the day of the Nativity of the Mother of God, during the mass repressions in the Perm province. He is commemorated on 22 September, on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church, and on 14 February with the saints of the Perm metropolis. He was numbered among the saints by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

He was born in 1874 in Kazan, into a family of townspeople. In March 1888 he finished the four-⁠class town school in Kazan, and in May 1898 sat the examination for the title of psalm-⁠reader before the commission of the Saint Stephen school in Perm. From 27 May 1898 until 24 March 1906 he was psalm-⁠reader at the church of the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple at the Arti plant, Krasnoufimsk district. In 1899, by a decision of the Perm spiritual consistory, he was admitted to the clergy. On 14 September 1900 he was tonsured to the stikharion by Bishop Peter (Losev) of Perm and Solikamsk. On 24 March 1906, "at the petition of the clergy, the warden and the parishioners", he was moved to the Holy Trinity cathedral in Krasnoufimsk. On 17 September 1906 he was ordained deacon at the same cathedral by Bishop Nicanor (Nadezhdin). On 31 March 1908 he was moved to the Saviour church in Solikamsk. On 17 February 1911 he was appointed teacher of religion at the Popovo primary school; for his diligent and skilful teaching of the Law of God, on 5 September 1914 thanks were expressed to him by the diocesan authorities. From 1916 to 1917 he was teacher of religion at the Chuvash primary school.

On 21 September 1918, on the day of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God, during the mass repressions in the Perm province, the deacon Alexander Ipatov was shot by soldiers of the Red Army.