Presbyter
Saint John Petrovich P'yankov was born in 1856 in the Perm province in the family of a psalmist. In 1875, he graduated from the Perm Theological Seminary and was appointed a teacher at the Dubrovskoye public school. On April 24, 1877, he was ordained a priest and served in the church of the village of Grigoryevskoye, then in the Odigitrievskaya and Vasilyevskaya churches. In 1881, he became an assistant missionary, and in 1884, an assistant to the rector of the Holy Trinity Church at the Kushva plant. In 1887, he was transferred to the hospital church in honor of Alexander Nevsky in Perm and became a law teacher at the Perm Real School. From 1891, he was a member of the diocesan school council, and from 1893, the chairman of the council of the Perm Diocesan Women's School. In 1894, he became the dean of the city churches of Perm. On May 6, 1900, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter. In 1909, he was appointed chairman of the committee for the construction of the Perm stone church in honor of the Nativity of Christ. From 1910, he served in the Sretenskaya church at the Pyshminsky plant. In his last years, he was the rector of the Perm Resurrection Church. He was awarded the orders of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree, St. Anna of the 2nd and 3rd degrees.
