(1881 - 1937) – Protopriest, Hieromartyr
Commemoration Day: December 2 (November 19 O.S.) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
Ioann Matveevich Malinovsky was born in 1881 in the village of Poymichye, Yaroslavl Province. He graduated from the Theological Seminary. He served in the holy orders since 1903 and lived in the village of Novye Gorki, Lezhnevsky District, Ivanovo Region.
On July 12, 1937, he was convicted of "counter-revolutionary agitation" and exiled to Kazakhstan for 5 years. He served his term of exile in the village of Mayskoye, Beskaragai District, East Kazakhstan Region, working as a laborer at the Mayskoye (May) mine.
On November 25, 1937, he was arrested on charges of "counter-revolutionary activity." He did not plead guilty.
On December 1, 1937, he was sentenced to execution by shooting by the Special Troika of the NKVD of East Kazakhstan Region. He was buried in an unmarked mass grave.
He was glorified by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000 as a New Martyr and Confessor of Russia.
Saints of Kazakhstan
