Bishop
Saint Nicodemus, Bishop of Belgorod, was born in 1871 in the Arkhangelsk province in the family of a priest. He graduated from the Arkhangelsk Theological Seminary and the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy. In 1896, he was tonsured into monasticism with the name Nicodemus and was ordained as a hieromonk, appointed as the supervisor of the Alexander Nevsky Theological School. In 1901, he received an award from the Synod for his work with children. In 1911, he was ordained as a bishop, and in 1913, he became the Bishop of Belgorod. Bishop Nicodemus was a church hymnographer, composing akathists to the saints. He was the author of books about ascetics and studied the history of eldership. In 1919, he was arrested for preaching against violence, secretly shot, and buried in a common grave. After the capture of Belgorod, his grave was opened, and it was established that he had been killed with cruelty. The remains of Bishop Nicodemus were buried in the Holy Trinity Monastery.
