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New Hieromartyrs Sergius Basil, Philip & Vladimir (1918)

died 1918

Also known as Sergius Fenomenov, Basil Kolmikov, Philip Shatsky, Vladimir Dmitrievsky

Four priests martyred in the Soviet persecution (1918)

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The Holy New Hieromartyrs Sergius, Basil, Philip, and Vladimir, Priests (1918)

Life

Sergius Fenomenov, Basil Kolmikov, Philip Shatsky, and Vladimir Dmitrievsky were four Orthodox priests of the Russian Church who were put to death in 1918, during the persecution unleashed against the Church after the Bolshevik seizure of power. They are commemorated together on September 3 and are numbered among the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

On the calendar of twentieth-century Russian New Martyrs the four priests are listed under September 3 alongside Bishop Pimen (Belolikov) of Vernensk and Semirechensk, who was likewise martyred in 1918 in the Turkestan region of Central Asia. They thus belong to the body of clergy of that area who suffered in the first year of the persecution.

Little biographical detail of the four priests survives in the available sources beyond their names, their priestly rank, and the year of their martyrdom. As with many of the New Martyrs, they are remembered collectively, witnessing to the great multitude of Russian clergy who were killed for their faith in the years following 1917.

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The Persecution of 1918

The year 1918 marked the opening of a sustained campaign against the Orthodox Church in the former Russian Empire. Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev, killed in January 1918, was the first bishop to be martyred, and in the years that followed bishops, priests, monastics, and laypeople were arrested, imprisoned, and executed in large numbers across the country.

Sergius, Basil, Philip, and Vladimir were among the parish clergy who lost their lives in this first year of the persecution. Their commemoration alongside Bishop Pimen of the Semirechye and Verny diocese associates them with the Church's witness in the Turkestan region during the Bolshevik takeover of Central Asia.

Veneration

The four priests are venerated within the wider commemoration of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, the collective feast established by the Russian Orthodox Church for those who suffered for Christ in the Soviet period. Their individual feast falls on September 3.

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Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia

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Bishop of Vernensk and Semirechensk, commemorated on the same day (September 3) and martyred in the same region in 1918

New Hieromartyr Pimenof Vernensk

Patriarch of Moscow during the persecution in which these priests were martyred

Tikhonof Moscow

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Saints connected to his life, mission, and place in Orthodox tradition.

Hieromonk of the Turkestan region martyred in 1918, commemorated September 3

New Hieromartyr Meletiusof Issyk-Kul