Timothy Petropavlovsky

Saint Timothy Alexandrovich Petropavlovsky, hieromartyr, was a Russian priest, ordained in 1913, who was shot on 13 July 1918, in the first years of the Soviet persecution. He was glorified among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia by the Jubilee Council of Bishops in the year 2000, for veneration throughout the Church. He is commemorated on 30 June by the old calendar, which is 13 July by the new.

The sources say he was born between 1885 and 1890. In 1913 he was ordained priest of the church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the village of Zolotonoshki, Sterlitamak district, Ufa governorate.

On 30 June (13 July by the new style) 1918 Father Timothy was shot by Red Army soldiers without trial or investigation. The punitive detachment forbade a funeral. The priest's wife was not allowed to accompany the body in its coffin to the cemetery. The burial of the pastor and of the villagers killed with him was performed by a hieromonk of the Alexeyev monastery.