Presbyter
Venerable Martyr Paul (Pavel Vasilyevich Evdokimov) was born on August 17, 1877, in the village of Ochokovo, Zubopolyansky District, Tambov Province, into a peasant family. He received a four-year elementary education. In 1914 he was ordained deacon in the city of Tiflis, and two years later he was transferred to Petrograd, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1919.
In 1932 Father Paul was arrested, accused of counterrevolutionary activity, and sent for three years to the Temnikov labor camps. After his release in 1934, he chose the city of Vyshny Volochyok in the Kalinin Region as his place of residence.
From November 1935, Father Paul served at the St. Nicholas-Stolpensky Monastery.
In 1937 he was arrested again. On the basis of false testimony, Father Paul was accused of counterrevolutionary activity and sentenced to the supreme penalty. The New Martyr did not admit any guilt.
Archimandrite Paul Evdokimov was executed by shooting on December 4, 1937. He was presumably buried in the prison section of the Pyatnitskoye Cemetery in Vyshny Volochyok.
He was numbered among the saints as one of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in August 2000 at the Jubilee Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
