(1873 - 1940) – Protopriest, Hieromartyr
Commemoration day: May 6 (April 23 O.S.), in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia and the Ryzan Saints.
Ioann Dmitrievich Anserov was born in 1867 in the village of Charus, Kasimov District, Ryazan Region, in the family of a psalmist. In 1893, he graduated from the Ryazan Theological Seminary.
In 1929, he was dispossessed.
In 1931, he was convicted in Ryazan under Article 58-10 and sentenced to 5 years of exile.
On February 21, 1938, he was arrested at the Spassk Department of Karlag.
On April 23, 1938, he was sentenced by the Special Council under the NKVD USSR to 8 years in a labor camp. He served his sentence in Karlag. He died in the Burma sector of Karlag on May 6, 1940. According to the medical report, death was due to decompensated myocarditis and senile debility.
On April 14, 1993, he was rehabilitated under the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
He was canonized as a saint of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia for general church veneration in August 2000 by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Saints of Kazakhstan
