Bishop
Saint Parfeny (in the world Peter Arsenyevich Bryanskikh), Bishop of Ananyev, was born in 1881 into the family of an honorable citizen of Irkutsk. After graduating from the Theological Academy, he went to Germany to continue his education. In 1911, he accepted monastic tonsure and was ordained a priest, being awarded the rank of archimandrite. Before the revolution, he served as a teacher in Zhytomyr and the Kherson province. After the revolution, he moved to Kherson, where he became the secretary of Bishop Prokopy. In 1921, he was elevated to the episcopal rank and became a vicar of the Odessa diocese, openly opposing the Renovationists. At the end of 1921, he was arrested but was released after six months. In 1922, he was detained again and moved to Moscow, where he lived in the Danilov Monastery. In 1925, he was arrested in the case of Metropolitan Peter, accused of 'causing harm to the dictatorship of the proletariat.' He was sentenced to three years of exile in the Komi-Zyryan region. In 1928, he returned to Moscow but was arrested again in 1929 for resisting the closure of churches. He was sentenced to three years of exile. In 1933, he was released but could not find a place to live. In 1934, he was arrested in Kimry for anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to five years of exile in the Northern region. On August 4, 1937, he was arrested and shot on November 22.
