Benjamin Zykov

Venerable Martyr Benjamin Zykov was an archimandrite of the Alma-⁠Ata eparchy. He was born in 1870 and died for the faith in 1937. He was counted among the saints, as a new martyr and confessor of the Russian Church, by the Council of Bishops of the year 2000. The list of the Synaxis of the Saints of Ekaterinburg mentions him as archdeacon of the Saint Nicholas monastery at Verkhoturye and gives 19 November (2 December new style) 1937 as the day of his repose.