Dimitry Benevolensky

Saint Dimitry Benevolensky, hieromartyr, was an archpriest in the diocese of Tver and died shot on 27 November 1937, during the Soviet persecution. The Russian Church glorified him among the new martyrs and confessors in 1999, and his commemoration is on 14 November, which is 27 November by the new calendar.

He was born on 10 October 1883 in Vyshny Volochyok, Tver governorate, into the family of a servant of the Church. In 1911 he was ordained priest and sent to serve at the church of the Holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica in the village of Ostrovno. In 1919 he moved to the church of the Joy of All Who Sorrow in the village of Panoshino (now part of the town of Udomlya). His last place of service was the church of the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God in the village of Sinevo-⁠Dubrovo, in the Sonkovo district of the Tver region.

For his faithfulness to his pastoral duty he was arrested several times. After the last arrest he was shot, on 27 November 1937.

On 19 September 1999, at Vyshny Volochyok, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to number him among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia. He is also commemorated in their Synaxis.