Theodosius Boldyrev

Saint Theodosius Fyodorovich Boldyrev, hieromartyr, was a Russian priest and received the martyr's death by shooting on 29 December 1937, during the Soviet persecution. He was canonized among the holy hieromartyrs in the year 2000.

He was born on 8 February 1868 in the village of Elan-⁠Koleno, Novokhopersk district, Voronezh governorate, into the family of the peasant Fyodor Boldyrev. He received his upbringing and education in a monastery and was ordained priest. In the persecution of the Church in the 1930s he was arrested and exiled. He returned from exile in 1935 and settled in the Tver region, where he served at the church in the village of Afimyino, Vyshny Volochyok district.

On 21 December 1937, in a new persecution, he was arrested again. The indictment was drawn up on 24 December, and on 27 December an NKVD troika sentenced him to death. He was sixty-⁠nine years old. He was shot on 29 December 1937.