Filipp Mikhailovich Grigoryev

Filipp Mikhailovich Grigoryev was born on November 6, 1870, into the family of a petty bourgeois.

He was of Kalmyk descent. After graduating from the Omsk Teacher's Seminary, he served as a psalmist in the churches of the Omsk diocese starting from July 19, 1897.

On June 22, 1898, he was ordained a deacon. From November 16, 1899, he served at the Petropavlovsk Church in the village of Sladkovskoe, Ishim County.

On October 24, 1902, he was ordained a priest.

Starting in 1906, he served at the Nikolsk Church in the village of Kopyevo, Tarsky County.

He was the second priest of the Sladkovsk Petropavlovsk Church and was dispatched on February 4, 1910, to the church under construction in the village of Novo-Nikolaevsk, Tarsky County (now the village of Nikolsk in the Znamensky District of Omsk Region), being removed from his position in the Sladkovsk parish.

On May 20, 1911, he was appointed to a regular position as a priest at the St. John the Theologian Church in the village of Novo-Rozhdestvensk, Tarsky County.

On June 8, 1913, he was transferred to the Church of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen in the village of Blagodarovsk, in the same county. According to information from 1914, he and his wife were raising four children.

From 1917, he served in the village of Kalachinsk, Tyukalinsky County, and then at the church in the village of Alexandrovka, Semirechenskaya Oblast (now Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan). After its closure, he moved to Almaty, where he served at the Trinity Church until it became part of the renovationist movement. Unwilling to join the schism, he began serving at the Nikolsk Church on Zubovskaya Square in 1929 and was elevated to the rank of protopriest.

He was arrested by GPU officers on December 9, 1932, along with Protopriests Alexander Skalsky and Stefan Ponomarev.

Initially, Father Filipp was interrogated for a month at the GPU. He was then sent to a sanitary pass-through facility, where he was subjected to harsh conditions in a bathhouse, placed in the back of an open truck, and transported through the cold to a city prison. Severely chilled, he immediately fell ill with typhus and was sent to the Red Cross typhus barrack on January 11, 1933.

He died on January 17, 1933, and was buried on a hill behind the Golovny Arik at a camp cemetery. In the same grave were buried Father Alexander Skalsky and Father Stefan Ponomarev. The memory of the hieromartyrs of Nikolsk-Kuchugur was sacredly preserved by the faithful, and a tombstone was placed on their grave. In the 1960s, during the redevelopment of the city, the grave of the hieromartyrs was destroyed, and the location of their holy relics remains unknown.

Hieromartyrs Alexander, Stefan, and Filipp were canonized for local veneration on February 14, 1999. They were included among the saints of the Russian New Martyrs by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for general church veneration, with a common memory day established on January 4.