Theodore Gidaspov

Holy Hieromartyr Theodore Gidaspov was a priest and rector of the Pyatnitskaya church in Kazan, and received the crown of martyrdom in 1918.

He was born in 1877 in the village of Trostyanka, in the Buzuluk district, in a priest's family of the Samara eparchy, and graduated from the Kazan Theological Academy in 1911. From 7 April 1916 he was rector of the Pyatnitskaya church, near the Kremlin, and catechist at the parish school. On 27 July 1917, at the farewell of the Seven Lakes icon from Kazan, he was detained for handing out a leaflet, but was soon released.

In 1918 he took his family to Samara and returned to Kazan on 22 October. He was arrested on a denunciation and, on 12 November 1918, shot for "anti-⁠Soviet activity".

He is honoured in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kazan, on 4 October by the old calendar (17 October by the new).