Presbyter
Dmitry Dmitrievich Belyaev was born on December 1, 1875, in the village of Troparyovo, Moscow province, into the family of a priest. After graduating from the Moscow Theological Seminary, he served as a teacher at a church-parish school from September 1896 to October 1899. In 1899, he was appointed as a priest in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God, All Who Sorrow Joy, and in February 1904, he was transferred to the Church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Balobanovo. From March 1904 to May 1918, he taught at the Balobanovo Zemstvo School. He and his wife, Maria Alexandrovna, had eight children. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the church in Balobanovo was closed, and he moved to the village of Voskresenskoye, where he began serving in the Church of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos. On November 26, 1937, he was arrested along with other clergymen and accused of counter-revolutionary activities. Not admitting his guilt, he was sentenced to death and shot on December 10, 1937, in the settlement of Butovo, buried in an unmarked grave. He was rehabilitated on July 28, 1989. In 2006, the name of the Holy Martyr Dmitry was included in the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, with his feast day celebrated on December 10.
