Jacob Perederiy

Holy Hieromartyr Jacob Perederiy (Jacob Andreevich Perediy), an archpriest, was born on 23 October 1871 in the village of Mliny in the Gadyach district of Poltava province. Although he received only primary education, he passed the examinations as a candidate for the priesthood and was ordained priest. In 1934 he was raised to the rank of archpriest. He served in the church of the village of Velbovka, Gadyach district, Kharkov region.

On 28 August 1936 he was arrested on a charge of having taken part in a counter-⁠revolutionary group of churchmen, and on 27 March 1937 he was sentenced by the special council attached to the NKVD of the USSR to five years of exile in Kazakhstan. In exile he worked as a watchman of the Dorstroy in the village of Borodulikha, Bel-⁠Agach district, East Kazakhstan region. On 21 November the priest was arrested again, on a charge of anti-⁠Soviet agitation against the collective farm system. He was held first in the detention cell of the Bel-⁠Agach NKVD office, then moved to the Semipalatinsk prison. Father Jacob did not admit guilt, but on 27 November the special troika of the UNKVD for East Kazakhstan region condemned him to death. The holy martyr was buried in an unknown grave.

The name of Archpriest Jacob was entered into the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by decision of the Holy Synod of 27 December 2000. He is commemorated on 2 December and on 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style, a movable day).