Andrew of Rafailov

Venerable Andrew of Rafailov was abbot of the Holy Trinity monastery of Rafailov, in Siberia, and died in the year 1820. He is honoured among the saints of Siberia.

Little is known of him. He lived for many years in the Holy Trinity monastery in the village of Rafailovo, in the Iset district of the Tyumen region, and served as its abbot. In 1811 he gave up the abbacy and moved to the Simonov monastery in Moscow, seeking quiet. He fell asleep in 1820, at about seventy-⁠five years of age.

In 1984 he was canonized as a locally venerated saint, within the Synaxis of Siberian Saints. His veneration is therefore not universal. He is commemorated on 14 March (locally) and on 10 June, the day of the Synaxis of Siberian Saints, by the Julian calendar.