(1881 - 1937) – Protopriest, Hieromartyr
Commemoration day: November 2 (October 20 O.S.) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
Ioann Alekseevich Rodionov was born in 1881 in the village of Ostankino, Timsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate. He received higher education specializing in history.
He served as a priest in the city of Yessentuki, North Caucasus region.
In 1933, he was arrested and sentenced to eight years of imprisonment by the OGPU Troika of the North Caucasus region.
He served his sentence in Karlag NKVD. In 1937, he was arrested in the camp on charges of "conducting counter-revolutionary agitation among prisoners, aimed at discrediting the policies of the Soviet government, openly declaring his beliefs. He stated that deliverance from Soviet power would come from Hitler." He did not plead guilty to the charges.
He was executed on November 2, 1937, in Karlag. He was buried in an unknown grave.
On May 12, 1989, he was rehabilitated by the regional prosecutor's office and the KGB Directorate of the Karaganda region.
He was canonized on August 20, 2000, by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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