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Hieromartyr

Constantine Popov

A hieromartyr of the Russian Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
August 13old style August 26
Reposed
191820th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Constantine Popov, a priest, served in the village of Lyagushinskoe in the Verkhoturye district, Perm province. His full name was Constantine Ivanovich Popov. Little is known of him.

On 13/26 August 1918 he was shot in the village of Yegorshino by the Bolsheviks who had seized power. At the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000, by decision of the Holy Synod of 17 July 2002, he was numbered among the saints of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

He is commemorated on 26 August, the day of his death (13 August in the old style), on 11 February, with the Synaxis of the Saints of Yekaterinburg, and on 7 February, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

Commemorated the same day August 13