Simeon Konyukhov

Holy Hieromartyr Simeon Konyukhov was a priest of the Edinoverie church in the village of Vorobyovo, Perm province, and was shot in the autumn of 1918, at the age of sixty-⁠five.

Simeon Antonovich Konyukhov was born in 1853 and ordained priest in 1877. From 1916 he served at the Edinoverie church in the village of Vorobyovo (Vorobyi), Okhansk district, Perm province. In October 1918 he was arrested, suspected on the strength of circulars of Bishop Andronik and of the dean, found with him, which called for protest against the seizure of church property by the new authorities. A Cheka troika sentenced him to death on 15 October 1918, aged sixty-⁠six, and the sentence was carried out the same day; another account says that after tortures and mockery he was shot on 27 September 1918. He was numbered among the saints at the Jubilee Council of Bishops in 2000.

He is commemorated on 28 October and, in the new style, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 14 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis.