Ioasaf Zavadskii

Ioasaf Zavadskii was a Russian schemaarchimandrite, born in 1865 in a peasant family in Kursk province, a disciple of Father Agathodorus and later an abbot in Russia. The date of his repose is not known. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Egor Efremovich in the world, he attended the seminary at Kursk, but not wishing to marry and be a priest he chose monasticism. In 1889, at twenty-⁠four, he came to Athos, to St Panteleimon, where his confessor was Father Agathodorus (Budanov), to whom he remained bound by very close spiritual ties. On 31 March 1890 he was tonsured a rassophore with the name Ioasaf. Later he went to Russia as confessor at the Pechersky monastery in Nizhny Novgorod and then became abbot of the Holy Trinity Ostrovoezersk Monastery in the Nizhny Novgorod diocese, where he introduced the Athonite order of services and of commemorating benefactors. His later fate is not known.