Grigory Ivanovich Dolinin

Grigory Ivanovich Dolinin was born in 1875 in the village of Khokhlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Province, into a peasant family. He received his education in a rural school. Before the revolution, he worked as a clerk.

Since 1926, he served as a psalmist in the church of one of the villages in the Koverinsky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

In 1930, he was "dekulakized" and sentenced to three years in a labor camp.

In 1932, he was released early and returned to his duties as a psalmist, serving in the church of the village of Skorobogatova. He was soon ordained as a deacon for this church.

On December 31, 1934, he was arrested on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation" and sentenced to five years of exile in Kazakhstan. He was first sent to Alma-Ata, then transferred to Shcherbakty.

On November 21, 1937, he was arrested in exile on charges of "counter-revolutionary propaganda, being a member of a counter-revolutionary church-sectarian group led by Borzakovsky, consisting mainly of clergy and sectarians of all orientations, participation in illegal religious services." He was part of the group case "Case of Archbishop Agapit (Borzakovsky); Pavlodar, 1937."

During the investigation, Father Grigory stated: "I was not part of any counter-revolutionary group. True, I am a religious person by conviction, and upon arriving in exile, I associated with clergy, but apart from religious rites, I did nothing with them."

On November 25, 1937, he was sentenced to the highest measure of punishment by the NKVD Troika of the East Kazakhstan Region.

He was executed by shooting on November 28, 1937, at 2 a.m. The place of burial is unknown.

On April 14, 1989, he was rehabilitated by the Prosecutor's Office of the Pavlodar Region for the 1937 repressions. On June 3, 1992, he was rehabilitated by the prosecutor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region for the 1935 repressions.

He was canonized as a holy martyr and confessor of the Russian Church at the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000.