Simeon Ilaryonovich Krivosheev

He was born in 1878 in Poltava. After graduating from the Poltava Theological Seminary, he was ordained a priest in 1903 and began his pastoral service in the village of Kharkovtsy, Kharkiv region. Father Simeon served in this village until 1937, the day of his arrest.

On March 27, 1937, Priest Simeon Ilaryonovich Krivosheev was sentenced to five years of exile in Kazakhstan on charges of "counter-revolutionary agitation." He served his exile in the village of Mayskoye in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan, along with other arrested priests. When arrests began as part of the group case "The Case of Archimandrite Grigory (Rebeza)," Father Simeon was also arrested. During interrogation, he gave very cautious statements, rejecting both his own guilt and that of others:

"I know about 10 clergymen personally, but I did not conduct any counter-revolutionary work."

On December 1, 1937, the troika of the NKVD of the East Kazakhstan region sentenced Protoiereus Simeon Krivosheev to execution for counter-revolutionary activities. The sentence was carried out on December 2, 1937, at 2 a.m.

He was canonized as a saint in the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the decision of the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for general church veneration.