Bishop
Saint Ignatius (Sadkovsky), Bishop of Skopin, was born on October 21, 1887, in Moscow to a priest's family. In 1910, he was tonsured into monasticism with the name Ignatius. In 1911, he was ordained as a hieromonk, and from 1920, he became the Bishop of Belev. He actively fought against the Renovationists and organized the Belev Autocephaly. From 1923 to 1926, he was imprisoned in the Solovetsky concentration camp. After returning to the Belev diocese, he was repeatedly arrested. Since 1933, he served as the Bishop of Skopin. In 1936, he was sentenced to exile in Arkhangelsk, where he lived on Kegostrov. In 1937, he was arrested again and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. He passed away on February 9, 1938, in the Kuloy ITL. His memory is commemorated on January 27/February 9. He was rehabilitated in 1958, 1989, and 1990. In 2002, he was included in the Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
