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RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
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HIEROMARTYR INNOCENT, BISHOP OF THE DON
Bishop Innocent (in the world Alexis Pokhorovich Shishkin) was born in 1878 in the village of Shostka, Rodninsky uyezd, Sedletskaya province (Poland). In 1916 he graduated from St. Petersburg Theological Academy and went to serve as a priest in Novocherkassk. On February 30, 1923 he was arrested for not submitting to the local renovationist diocesan administration, and on March 30 was sentenced to three years in the camps. He was imprisoned on Solovki. On March 13, 1926 he was released and went to serve in the Kuban. From the beginning of 1928 he was in opposition to Metropolitan Sergius and joined the Josephites. From 1928 to 1929 he was an assistant to Bishop Alexis (Buj), carrying out the duties of dean of part of the Josephite parishes in the Kuban, where he helped Bishop Barlaam (Lazarenko). He lived in Yeisk, Krasnodar province. He was arrested in 1928, but was soon released. In November, 1929 he went to serve in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Petrograd, but from the beginning of 1930 was in hiding, going from place to place and serving in secret. In 1930 he was consecrated Bishop of the Don (according to another source, of Yeisk) by the Catacomb Bishops Alexis (Buj), Barlaam (Lazarenko) and Joasaph (Popov). He lived in Novocherkassk, but never slept more than two nights in one place, being constantly pursued. In 1936 he went to his mother’s grave in Rostov-on-Don, and was arrested there on October 7. He was imprisoned in Rostov, and on May 21, 1937 was sentenced to five years in the camps. He was sent to Ukhtpechlag, Komi republic, arriving there on September 10. At the end of 1937 he was living in the village of Vogvazdino, Ust-Vymsk region, where he was arrested again on December 29, 1937. On February 15, 1938 he was sentenced to be shot. The sentence was carried out on March 21, 1938. (Sources: Archbishop Lazarus of Tambov, Pravoslavnaya Rus’, N 22 (1451), November 15/28, 1991, p. 5; Bishop Ambrose (von Sievers), “Episkopat Istinno-Pravoslavnoj Katakombnoj Tserkvi 1922-1997g.”, Russkoye Pravoslaviye, N 4(8), 1997, p. 7; M.V. Shkarovsky, Iosiflyanstvo, St. Petersburg, 1999,

St. Joseph of Petrograd: When the externals of Orthodoxy vanish
Video by Gregory Decapolite

The Russian True Orthodox Church – Patriarch Tikhon’s Catacomb Church
See in the Official Site of the Synod The Russian True Orthodox Church (RTOC), also known as the Catacomb Church – a canonical rightful successor to the Tikhonite Local All-Russian Church, was fully organized in the late twenties and early thirties of…

Why Archimandrite Leontius was Anti-Social
source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com The future Archbishop of Chile (ROCOR), but then Archimandrite Leontius Fillipovich (†1971), recalls his time in the Catacomb Church: “Living in an illegal position and serving a very small number of my faithful parishioners, I didn’t always have…

Venerable Confessor Seraphim (Zagorovsky), Hieromonk of Kharkov (†1943)
source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com Father Nicholas was descended from an ancient family of princes who became poor and went over to the religious calling. His father, Deacon Michael Theoktistovich, lived in a border region of Akhtirka. He was a man of meek…

HIEROMARTYR NICODEMUS OF POLTAVA
by Dr. Vladimir Moss The clergy exiled to Solovki usually spent some time in the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Kremlin, and then in the sixth company. Among them was Fr. Nicodemus. Stooped, approaching 80, he was nevertheless fit and healthy…

What the Life of the St. Maxim First Catacomb Bishop of Russia Speaks of Concerning the Truth
Bishop Maxim of Serpukhov FIRST CATACOMB BISHOP OF RUSSIA Commemorated July 6 (†1930) FROMLIVES OF THE NEW MARTYRS by Ivan Andreyev “Even if all the world shall enter into communion with the (heretical) Patriarch, I will not.” ST. MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR…


HOLY NEW MARTYR PARAMON OF BRAGIL (BELORUSSIA)
In the town of Bragil there lived a 65-year-old bachelor of chaste life, Paramon. His parents died early and he remained living all alone in their house for many years, leading a life of fasting and prayer. His house was not…