Methodius Fedorenko

Methodius Fedorenko was a Russian hieromonk of St Panteleimon Monastery (Rossikon) on Athos, shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918. He is venerated by the faithful as a venerable martyr, without a synodal canonization.

Named Moses Emelyanovich Fedorenko in the world, he was born in 1863 in the village of Savintsy, Lubny district, Poltava province, in a peasant family. He reached Athos on 6 May 1891 and was received at St Panteleimon on 15 May, tonsured a rassophore on 9 March 1894 and a monk with the name Methodius on 11 August 1901. He worked in the monastery bakery and at the Moscow metochion and served as dean at Rossikon. In 1912 he took part in the movement of the Name-⁠glorifiers (imiaslavtsy), and on 3 July 1913 he was forcibly removed from the Holy Mountain, with hundreds of other monks, aboard the steamer Kherson. In 1918, in the Kuban region, he was ordained hieromonk for the former Name-⁠glorifiers, but in the same year he was shot by the Bolsheviks in a Cossack village.