Constantine Cherepanov

Holy Hieromartyr Constantine Cherepanov, a priest, was born in 1878 in the Yekaterinburg district of the Perm province. His full name was Constantine Vasilievich Cherepanov. He studied at the theological seminary in Perm and was ordained priest for the Resurrection cathedral in Semipalatinsk.

Father Constantine was arrested on 28 August 1937 on a charge of being a "member of a counter-⁠revolutionary espionage organisation of churchmen". He was tried in a collective case together with the archpriest Nestor Panin, the archpriest Theodore Chichkanov and the priest Victor Klimov. With these holy hieromartyrs he was sentenced to death and shot at two o'clock in the night of 22 November 1937.

He is commemorated on 22 November, the day of his death, and on 7 February, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, in the new style.