Michael Denisov

Holy Hieromartyr Michael Denisov, a priest, was born in 1869 in the village of Pyatigory in the Cherdyn district of Perm province, to the priest Photius Denisov, who served at the church of Saint George in the village; Father Photius died when Michael was four. In 1888 Michael finished three classes of the Perm seminary and entered as a reader at the Transfiguration church in the village of Yukseevo. In 1893 he was sent to the Transfiguration church at Ust-⁠Kosva, in 1894 to the church of Saint Alexander Nevsky at Yusva. On 10 August 1897 he was ordained a deacon for the church of Saint Alexis in the village of Egva and appointed teacher and religion teacher of the parish literacy school. In 1900 he was moved to the Holy Cross church at Bondyug, and in 1901 appointed teacher of the zemstvo school. In 1904 he went as deacon to the Holy Cross church at Sylvinskoe, Kungur district, and religion teacher of the parish school, and in 1911 to the church of Saint Xenia of the Chusovaya works. On 9 April 1911 he was ordained a priest for the same church and appointed religion teacher at the zemstvo school. In 1912 he was moved to the church of Saint Elijah in the village of Levino, Okhansk district, as head and religion teacher of the parish school, and in 1913 he was appointed one of the confessors of the second Okhansk deanery. His last place of service was the church of Saint George in the village of Pyatigory, where his father had once served.

The priest Michael Denisov was shot by the Bolsheviks in September 1918. He is commemorated on 20 June, in the new style, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (a movable day) and, on 14 February, with the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis (a movable day).