Presbyter
Saint Theodore was born on February 13, 1889, in the village of Pesye, Podolsk district of Moscow province. After graduating from the Perervinsky Theological School in 1905, he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary and was ordained a priest in 1911 at the Tikhvin Church in the village of Bogorodskoye-Vatutinki.
In 1919, during the uprising against the Bolsheviks, he was called into the rear of the Red Army, but from June he continued his service in the Tikhvin Church. On August 15, 1930, he was arrested for anti-Soviet activities and imprisoned in Butyrka prison.
Father Theodore, especially during the interrogation, tried not to express opinions, but in his testimonies denied any anti-Soviet agitation. On September 5, 1930, the OGPU troika sentenced him to five years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp, where he served his sentence in the construction of the White Sea Canal.
In 1934, he was released and served in the Ryazan diocese, and in 1937 he was appointed to the church in the village of Stara Kashira. On December 4, 1937, he was arrested based on a denunciation from the chairman of the collective farm and accused of anti-Soviet agitation. On December 7, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp.
Father Theodore died from unbearable labor and hunger on November 27, 1940, in Samarlag of the NKVD and was buried in an unknown common grave.
