Innocent Beda

Holy Venerable Martyr Innocent (Dmitry Panteleimonovich Beda, in the world) was an archimandrite of the Russian Church, born in 1881 in the village of Moisentsy, in the Zolotonosha district, Poltava province, into an old Cossack family, and dead on 6 January 1928 in the Solovki camp. The Council of Bishops of the Russian Church glorified him in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in 2000. He is commemorated on 24 December by the old calendar (6 January by the new).

He finished the one-⁠class people's school in Moisentsy and entered a monastery. On 1 June 1908, in the bishop's house of Omsk, he received monastic tonsure with the name Innocent. On 20 June 1908 he was ordained deacon, and on 25 March 1909 priest. On 8 December 1910 he was appointed superintendent of the monasteries of the Omsk diocese. He became the cell attendant of Bishop Peter (Zverev) of Staritsa, vicar of the Tver diocese. In 1923, after the bishop's arrest, he went to his homeland, Poltava province. After Peter (Zverev) was released and appointed to the see of Voronezh, Innocent went with him. He was raised to the rank of archimandrite and was abbot of the Akatov Alexeevsky monastery.

He was arrested in the case of Archbishop Peter on 17 December 1926 by the secret police at Voronezh and moved to the Lubyanka prison. On 22 March 1927 he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. At the end of April he was sent to the Solovki camp. In October 1927 he fell gravely ill, and on 6 January 1928 he died.