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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Trophimus Kuznetsov

Priest

Russian priest born in 1885 in Simbirsk province, killed in January 1919; canonized in 2000.

Feast
May 29old style June 11
Reposed
191920th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Trophimus Kuznetsov, hieromartyr, was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born on 22 July 1885 in the village of Kazakovka, in the Syzran district of Simbirsk province, and was killed in January 1919.

He was numbered among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, held in Moscow from 13 to 16 August 2000, for veneration throughout the Church.

He is commemorated at the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Our Menaion data gives 29 May. The sources say no more about his life and death.

Commemorated the same day May 29