Presbyter
Saint Feoktist was born on January 17, 1874, in the village of Tarasovichi, Chernigov province. After graduating from the Chernigov Theological Seminary in 1898, he married Klavdiya Mikhailovna, with whom he lived his entire life. They had two children: Valentin and daughter Nonna.
On August 28, 1898, he was ordained by Bishop Antoniy to the church in the village of Verkhlitchi, where he served as the legal teacher of the parish school. In 1900, he was transferred to the Nikolayevskaya church in the town of Gorska, where he was the head and legal teacher in the zemstvo schools.
In 1905, he was transferred to the Preobrazhenskaya church in the town of Gogoleva, where he stood against the pogroms of Jews, protecting them from attacks. On April 30, 1906, he was allowed to perform priestly duties at the church of the village of Voropaeva, and on May 24, he was confirmed as a priest.
From 1913 to 1917, he was a teacher at the Chernigov Theological Seminary. His last parish was the Holy Trinity Church in the village of Losinovka, where he served until its closure in 1936. In that same year, he was arrested and sent to the concentration camp 'Karlag' in Kazakhstan, where he was sentenced to death, carried out on October 3, 1937.
By the decision of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church on August 20, 2000, Priest Feoktist was canonized. His feast day is October 3, the day of his blessed repose.
