Theodore Malyarovsky

Holy Hieromartyr Theodore Malyarovsky, a priest, was born in 1885 in the village of Novoorsk in the Orenburg region. He received the crown of martyrdom by shooting on 4 September 1937. He was numbered among the saints by the Council of Bishops of the year 2000.

He finished the town school and the pastoral and missionary courses in Moscow (1915 to 1916). From 1904 to 1905 he was a teacher. On 24 September 1905 he became a psalm-⁠reader in a village of the Kustanai district, and on 6 November 1911 he was ordained deacon. On 12 March 1916 he was ordained priest for the village of Andreevskoe in the diocese of Omsk and Pavlodar. From 1932 to 1934 he served in the village of Grodekovo in the Aulie-⁠Ata district in Kazakhstan, then in the village of Grodekovo in the South Kazakhstan region. In 1929 he was arrested as a "kulak" and on 26 October 1929 sentenced to prison with confiscation of property, under article 61 of the Criminal Code, for "failure to fulfil the plan"; he was in prison until the beginning of 1930. In 1936 or 1937 he was arrested for "performing services and baptisms in homes" and released after a few days.

On 12 June 1937 he was arrested by the Mirzoyan district branch of the NKVD. In the case file he was described as a "priest of the Tikhonite orientation" and accused of "counter-⁠revolutionary Trotskyist-⁠fascist propaganda." At the trial he did not admit guilt. On 31 August 1937 the troika of the UNKVD for the South Kazakhstan region sentenced him to death, and on 4 September he was shot. He was rehabilitated on 26 June 1989 by the prosecutor's office of the Dzhambul region.

He is commemorated on 4 September (new style) and in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church on 7 February, on a movable day.