Bishop
In the world, Mikhail Platonovich Krasnoperov was born on July 30, 1868, in the village of Vyatskoe, Sarapul district, Vyatka province, into a poor family of a psalmist. He graduated from the Sarapul Spiritual School and the Vyatka Theological Seminary. In 1890, he was appointed as the supervisor of the Sarapul Spiritual School. On October 22, 1891, he was ordained as a priest and appointed to the Tikhvin Church in the village of Pazdery. In 1896, he was appointed as a supernumerary priest at the Ascension Cathedral in Sarapul and head of the Nikolsk Church School. In 1898, he became a widower and entered the Kazan Theological Academy, where in 1900 he was tonsured a monk with the name Mefodiy. In 1902, he graduated from the Academy and was appointed assistant supervisor of the Ufa Spiritual School.
In 1903, he was appointed inspector of the Alexander Missionary Seminary in Ossetia. In 1905, he became the acting rector of the Ufa Theological Seminary, and in 1906, he was confirmed in this position and elevated to the rank of archimandrite. In 1907, he was elected a permanent member of the Ufa Diocesan Committee of the Orthodox Missionary Society. In 1909, he organized a pastoral and preaching circle that spread the light of Christ's teaching beyond the church walls. On November 13, 1911, with his participation, the Charity for Poor Students of the Seminary was opened in Ufa.
On February 10, 1913, he was consecrated as the Bishop of Akmolinsk. On July 21, 1913, in Omsk, the Diocesan Brotherhood of Sobriety was established, with Bishop Mefodiy as its chairman. In 1914, a decision was made to transfer his residence to Petropavlovsk. On March 27, 1917, the Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies decided to remove Bishop Mefodiy from Petropavlovsk for reactionary activities, but the Holy Synod ignored this request.
In 1921, during the peasant uprising, Bishop Mefodiy was killed. On February 17, 1921, he served the Divine Liturgy in the Nikolsk Church, after which he went out to the square to the people and was killed by Red Army soldiers. Twelve years before his martyr's death, he spoke of the need to fight for the ideals of spiritual life and that suffering purifies and leads to glory.
He was canonized in August 2000 at the Archpastoral Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2018, his name was included in the assembly of Udmurt Saints.
