Andrew Benediktov

Holy Hieromartyr Andrew Benediktov, a priest, was born in 1885 in the village of Voronino, in the Nizhny Novgorod province, and was shot in August 1937. He served as a priest at a church in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. In 2000 he was glorified among the saints by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church.

His name was Andrew Nikolaevich Benediktov. He was arrested on 6 August 1937 together with other Orthodox clergy and laity and accused of taking part in a counter-⁠revolutionary church grouping and in anti-⁠Soviet conversations. He did not admit guilt and gave no testimony against others. Priest Andrew Benediktov was shot after the sentence of 21 August 1937 and was later rehabilitated. He is commemorated on 4 October, on 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 12 September, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod.