Bishop
Saint Simon, the Holy Martyr, was born in 1873 in the Simbirsk province. After graduating from the Nizhny Novgorod Theological Seminary, he entered the Kazan Theological Academy, which he completed in 1899 with the degree of Candidate of Theology. On January 17, 1900, he was ordained a priest for the Old Believer Church in Kazan, and from February 7, 1905, he was appointed as a priest of the Nikolsk Old Believer Church in St. Petersburg. Since November 22, 1907, he has been the rector of this church.
Father Simeon was consecrated by His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra on June 16, 1918, and was appointed to the newly established Old Believer diocese as the Bishop of Okhtensk. From 1920, he served as the Old Believer Bishop of Ufa, and in February 1921, he was appointed as the ruling bishop in Ufa.
The bishop was killed while returning to his residence from the cathedral assembly on August 5 (18), 1921. He was canonized among the ranks of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Jubilee Archpastoral Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for public veneration.
