Presbyter
On May 30, 1874, in Kherson, Ioann Georgievich Skadovsky was born, a hereditary nobleman. In 1890, he graduated from a real school, and in 1896 - from an agricultural school. In the early 1990s, after meeting with Bishop Prokopy of Kherson, he began to lean towards accepting the sacred order.
In 1918, he distributed all his agricultural property to the peasants and moved to Odessa, where Metropolitan Platon ordained him as a priest. He was appointed to the Blagoveshchensky Women's Monastery, founded by his grandfather, and later was assigned to the church of the archbishop's house in Kherson.
From 1922 to 1925, he served as the third priest of the city cathedral. After the cathedral was seized by the Renovationists, he moved to the church at the cemetery, where he served until 1926. At the end of 1929, he was arrested.
In 1931, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment and sent to the Vysherlag camps, where he remained until February 1933, when the authorities replaced his concentration camp sentence with exile. On October 1, 1934, he was arrested again and subsequently served his exile in the city of Kamyshin.
On September 16, 1934, Archbishop Prokopy arrived in Kamyshin, where they organized a home church for secret services. At the end of October 1934, they were arrested, and on March 17, 1935, they were sentenced to five years of exile in Karakalpakia.
On August 24, 1937, they were arrested again, the investigation concluded a month later, and on October 28, they were sentenced to execution. On November 23, 1937, Archbishop Prokopy and Priest Ioann Skadovsky were executed and buried in an unknown common grave.
