Theodore Antipin

Holy Hieromartyr Theodore Antipin, a priest, was born on 18 September 1868 in the village of Verkhny Shakser in the Cherdyn district of the Perm province, in the family of the peasant Vasily Antipin. He received the crown of martyrdom by shooting on 24 January 1919, together with the Holy Hieromartyr Nicholas Matsievsky.

In 1887 Theodore Vasilievich finished the Annunciation teachers' seminary and taught in schools of the Okhansk district. On 10 March 1896 he was ordained deacon for the church in Sylvino-⁠Troitskoe in the Perm district, and on 9 May 1903 priest for the same church, where on 11 March 1908 he was named rector. From 1906 he had the obedience of teaching religion at the Saint Stephen parish school in the village of Zhebreeva and in the neighbouring villages. In 1909 he was named rector of the Nativity of Christ church in the village of Yum in the Cherdyn district. From 1910 to 1914 he served as dean of the second district of Cherdyn. In 1914, by order of Bishop Andronicus Nikolsky of Perm and Solikamsk, he was named a member of the deanery council.

Saint Nicholas was born on 12 January 1872 in the family of the nobleman Arthur Matsievsky. In 1891 he finished the first year of the Kazan seminary and received a teacher's diploma, which gave him the right to teach in primary school. In the same year he passed the psalm-⁠reader's examination and was appointed psalm-⁠reader at the Saint Sergius church in the village of Sungurovo in the Kazan province. On 21 September 1897 he was ordained deacon. On 30 August 1902 he moved to the Perm diocese and on 15 September was ordained priest for the church in Golubyata in the Perm district and appointed head of the parish school there. In 1907 he was moved to the church in Osipovo-⁠Klyuchevaya in the Osa district, and in 1911 to the church of Saints Peter and Paul in the village of Opachevsky in the same district. In 1916 he was appointed to the Nativity of Christ church in the village of Yum in the Cherdyn district.

The priests Theodore Antipin and Nicholas Matsievsky were shot on 24 January 1919 by the atheist Bolsheviks who had come to power.

He is commemorated on 24 January (new style), in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church on 7 February on a movable day, and in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis on 14 February on a movable day.