Boris (Voskoboynikov)

In the world, Semion Timofeevich Voskoboynikov, he was born on September 1, 1875, in the village of Alexandrovka, Pavlovsky District, Voronezh Province, in the family of Priest Timofey Voskoboynikov.

In 1891, he graduated from the Pavlovsky Theological School with a second-class degree, and in 1897, from the Voronezh Theological Seminary also with a second-class degree.

He married in 1897.

On November 7, 1897, he was ordained a deacon to the Lukinskaya Church in the village of Nizhnyaya Gnilusha, Pavlovsky District, Voronezh Province.

On January 11, 1901, he was transferred to the Transfiguration Church in the settlement of Urazovo, Valuysky District.

On February 27, 1903, he was ordained a priest to the Epiphany Church in the settlement of Novorozhdestvennaya, Biryuchensky District.

On October 11, 1907, he was dismissed from the clergy due to his admission to the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy.

In 1911, he graduated from the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy with the degree of Candidate of Theology for his dissertation "The organs of diocesan administration and court in the Russian Church in the 16th-17th centuries."

Since 1910, he served as a teacher of the Law of God in the Alexandrovskaya Women's School at the House of Mercy, and from 1911, in the Nikolaev Trade School of the Saint Petersburg Merchants' Guild.

On June 10, 1911, he was appointed rector of the house church at the Nikolaev House of Mercy for the elderly and infirm citizens in Saint Petersburg.

On March 14, 1918, he was appointed an investigator of the third capital district and elevated to the rank of archpriest.

In 1921, he served as the rector of the Nativity Church in the village of Staropolye, Gdovsky District.

On September 3, 1929, he was mentioned as the dean of the Buturlinovsky District of the Voronezh Diocese.

In May 1934, he was mentioned as a mitred archpriest, rector of the Annunciation Cathedral in the city of Ivanovo.

In early March 1936, he was tonsured a monk with the name Boris, the tonsure was performed in the Dormition Cathedral of Kineshma.

On March 7, 1936, he was consecrated bishop of Kineshma, vicar of the Kostroma Diocese.

On March 31, 1936, he was appointed acting administrator of the Ivanovo Diocese.

On July 1 of the same year, he was transferred to the Ivanovo Diocese.

On April 23, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in the internal prison of the NKVD of the Ivanovo Region. He was accused of "participating in the anti-Soviet activities of counter-revolutionary groups of churchmen and monastics, liquidated in 1937 in the city of Ivanovo and Lezhnevsky District."

On August 9 of the same year, he was sentenced by the Special Council of the NKVD of the USSR to five years of exile in Kazakhstan, in the Sary-Suy District.

On November 25, 1937, while en route to his place of exile, he was re-arrested and imprisoned in the city of Mirzoyan (now Taraz), South Kazakhstan (Chimkent) Region. He was accused of "conducting defeatist counter-revolutionary terrorist agitation aimed at undermining the power of the USSR." He did not plead guilty.

On November 28 of the same year, the NKVD troika of the South Kazakhstan Region sentenced him to death.

He was executed on December 6, 1937, in the Chimkent Region of Kazakhstan and buried in an unmarked mass grave.

On March 28, 1989, he was rehabilitated by the Regional Prosecutor's Office of the Chimkent Region for the 1937 repressions.

Hieromartyr Boris was "a true witness of the Resurrection of Christ, who upheld all the truth of the Church, did not wish to submit to unrighteousness, and illuminated the Russian Church with new glory."

In August 2000, by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was canonized as a saint among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia for universal veneration.