Tryphon of Radonezh

Holy Hieromartyr Tryphon of Radonezh, a deacon, was born in 1873 in Moscow; his father's name was Elijah, and nothing is known of his mother. For many years he served as a psalm-⁠reader and teacher. He received the rank of deacon in 1935 and served at the church of the village of Faustovo in the Voskresensk district of Moscow region. There is information that he was ordained a deacon, but at the time of his arrest he was working as an inspector at a trade enterprise and lived in Moscow, at 4 Radio Street.

He was arrested on 29 September 1937 on a charge of counter-⁠revolutionary activity, and on 16 December 1937 the NKVD troika of Moscow region sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment. He died in custody on 27 February 1938, in the sixty-⁠fifth year of his life. He was rehabilitated in September 1995 by the Moscow prosecutor's office. The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church numbered him among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia on 27 March 2007, on the basis of documents submitted by the Moscow diocese. The form of his surname follows the blessing of Patriarch Kirill of 1 December 2021.

He is commemorated on 27 February, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 5 September (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow, all in the new style.