Simeon Krivosheev

Holy Hieromartyr Simeon Krivosheev was an archpriest and was shot in East Kazakhstan on 2 December 1937, in the case of Archimandrite Gregory (Rebeza).

Semyon Hilarionovich Krivosheev was born in 1878 in Poltava. He graduated from the Poltava Seminary and in 1903 was ordained priest for the village of Kharkovtsy, where he served until 1937. On 27 March 1937 he was sentenced, on a charge of counter-⁠revolutionary agitation, to five years of exile in Kazakhstan, which he served in the settlement of Maiskoe, in the Pavlodar region, together with other arrested priests. When arrests began in the group "Case of Archimandrite Gregory (Rebeza)", Father Simeon was arrested as well. At the interrogation he gave very cautious answers, rejecting his own guilt and anyone else's: "I know personally about ten servants of the cult, but I have done no counter-⁠revolutionary work." On 1 December 1937 the troika attached to the NKVD of the East Kazakhstan region sentenced Archpriest Simeon Krivosheev to death, and the sentence was carried out on 2 December 1937 at two in the night.

He is commemorated on 2 December and, in the new style, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.