Presbyter
Saint Martyr Ioasaph Panov was born in 1860 in the family of priest Stefan Panov and Agnia Alexandrovna. In 1875, he graduated from the Dalmatov Spiritual School and became a psalmist in the Ascension Cathedral of Yekaterinburg. In 1889, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1891 — as a priest. He served in the Holy Nicholas Church of the Verkhne-Turinsky factory, then in the village of Nizhny in the Yekaterinburg district, where he worked for 13 years, caring for the local population.
In 1904, he was transferred to the Assumption Church of the Tyghish village in the Kamyshlov district. In 1911, at his own request, he was dismissed from the staff, but soon received a temporary appointment to the parish of the Moustovskoye village in the Irbit district. In 1914, for his zealous service, he was awarded a priestly stole.
After the October Revolution of 1917, the attitude of the Soviet government towards the clergy worsened. On August 13/26, 1918, in the village of Mironovskoye, priests Ioasaph Panov and Ioann Shishov were arrested, accused of agitation against the Soviet government. They were shot on the spot, demonstrating courage and steadfastness.
Saint Martyr Ioasaph Panov was glorified in the Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia from the Yekaterinburg Diocese in 2002.
