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Averkiy Severovostokov, presbyter

Averkiy Severovostokov, presbyter

Averkiy Severovostokov, presbyter

Hieromartyr
Presbyter

Saint Averkij was born in 1845 in the family of the priest Yakov Severovostokov. After graduating from the Ufa Theological Seminary, he was ordained a priest in 1880 and appointed as the rector of the church in honor of Saint John Chrysostom in the village of Emashi, Zlatoust district of Ufa province. In 1913, he became a member of the Diocesan Committee of the Orthodox Missionary Society. Suffering in the early days of the godless persecutions, he was shot by godless Bolsheviks on June 17 (30), 1918. Priest Mikhail Makarevsky mentioned the atrocities of the Bolsheviks at a meeting of the Ufa Diocesan Assembly, among whom was also Priest Averkij Severovostokov.

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