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Hieromartyr

Alypy Ivlev

An Orthodox cleric honored as a martyr, who died for the faith in 1950.

Feast
August 20old style September 2
Reposed
195020th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Alypy Ivlev was an archimandrite of the Orthodox Church of Estonia and is counted among the clergy canonized in 2019 as martyrs of the Soviet persecution.

The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided in March 2019, on the proposal of the Orthodox Church of Estonia, to enter among the saints those who died as martyrs or confessors of the faith between 1944 and 1955, in the first years of Soviet rule after the war: Bishop Peter of Tartu and Pechory and a number of clergy and laity. They are remembered on 20 August.

The sources consulted do not keep the story of his life.

Commemorated the same day August 20