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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Victor Nikiforov

Cleric martyred for the faith of Christ.

Feast
June 7old style June 20
Reposed
191820th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Victor Nikiforov was a priest in the village of Komarovskoe in Perm province and was shot by the Bolsheviks in July 1918, soon after his ordination.

He was born into the family of a deacon of the diocese of Perm, Nicholas Fyodorovich Nikiforov. In 1911 he entered the Perm seminary, which he finished in 1917. On 20 February 1918 he was ordained priest and appointed to the church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the village of Komarovskoe, Osa district. He served only briefly, for in July of the same year he was shot by the godless Bolsheviks.

The saint is commemorated on 20 June and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 14 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis.

Commemorated the same day June 7