Amos Ivanov

Holy Hieromartyr Amos Ivanov, a priest, served at the church of the Protection of the Mother of God in the settlement of Vakhrushevo, in the Kansk district of the Yenisei province. He was killed by the Bolsheviks in 1919, in the time of the civil war. The exact circumstances of his death are not known. He was glorified among the New Martyrs and Confessors by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church of 13 to 16 August 2000.

Very little is known of his life. From 1887 to 1892 he was psalm-⁠reader at the church in the village of Mikhalevskoe, in the Kansk district, and in the early 1910s he was deacon at the church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Antsirskoe, in the same district. He was then ordained priest and served at the church of the Protection in the resettlement village of Vakhrushevo, in the Taseevo volost.

In December 1918 the northeast of the Kansk district was seized by the uprising of the Red partisans. In a report of 26 March 1919 Priest Stephen Sukhovsky of the Rozhdestvenskoe parish announced that, according to rumours as yet unverified, Priest Amos Ivanov had been killed. According to the report of Dean Nicholas Palmin of 27 June 1919, Father Amos was alive until the Bolsheviks fled before the government troops of Kolchak, in early summer. In autumn the Bolsheviks went over to the counter-⁠attack and retook the lost territories, taking reprisals against many local people, among them, it seems, Father Amos. The date and circumstances of his death are not known. The Holy Church commemorates him on the day of his heavenly patron, the Prophet Amos, on 28 June, and on 11 June, in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Krasnoyarsk Metropolis.