Ηegumen / Abbot
Saint Ioasaph (in the world Ivan Pavlovich Krymzin) was born on September 7, 1880, in the village of Rumyantsevo, Nizhny Novgorod province. He completed primary school and in 1904 entered the Ekaterininskaya Desert of the Moscow diocese, where he received spiritual education and learned to fulfill the Gospel commandments. On April 6, 1909, he was appointed to the brotherhood, on January 9, 1912, he was tonsured into the mantle with the name Ioasaph, and on July 30, 1912, he was ordained as hierodeacon. On March 19, 1917, he became a hieromonk, and on February 20, 1918, the Ekaterininskaya Desert was transferred to the Krasnostok Women's Monastery. Hieromonk Ioasaph wished to move to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Guslitsky Monastery, where he served as an economist from 1921. In 1929, the monastery was closed, and Father Ioasaph began serving in the Nikitskaya Church in the village of Byvalino. On September 24, 1935, he was elevated to the rank of igumen. On November 18, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in the city of Noginsk, where he was interrogated on November 21. On November 25, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death by shooting. Igumen Ioasaph was shot on December 2, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
