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Hieromartyr

Alexis Stabnikov

A Russian priest who died a martyr for his faith in Christ during the communist persecution.

Feast
September 21old style October 4
Reposed
191820th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Alexis Stabnikov, a protopriest, was rector of the cathedral at Yugovskoy Zavod, near Perm, now the settlement of Yug in the Perm district. He was killed by Red soldiers on 4 October 1918, in the time of mass repressions in the Perm region. The Russian Church honours him among the New Martyrs and Confessors.

The sources available to us give no further details of his life. He is commemorated on 4 October, on 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 14 February, in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis.

Commemorated the same day September 21