Eleven New Martyrs of Estonia

The Eleven New Martyrs of Estonia are priests, deacons and laity of the Orthodox Church of Estonia, killed for the faith under the Soviet occupation in the 1940s. On 22 February 2012 the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople canonised eleven clergy and laity of the Church of Estonia who suffered in the first Soviet occupation, in 1940 and 1941. They are commemorated on 14 June, by the New Calendar.

The group comprises the new hieromartyr priests Vassili Ristkok (1942), Johannes Kraav (1941), Joann Sergejev, Arteemi Vapper (1944) and Nikolai Leisman (1943), the deacons Vassili Astanin and Peeter Koslov, the priest's wife Marta Leisman (1943) and the laymen Joann Lagovski (1941), Theodor Petai (1942) and Anna Petai (1948). The years that the calendar attaches to some of them run as far as 1948. Another group of Estonian martyrs, glorified in 2019 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, is commemorated on 20 August.