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The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia glorified the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in 1981. Prelude to the glorification of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia affected by years of revolutionary turmoil and the Bolshevik terror, was the canonization of Patriarch Tikhon on October 9, 1989.
In the Russian Orthodox Church, the Sunday closest to 25 January (7 February on the Gregorian Calendar) is the "Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia." The date of 25 January was chosen because that was the date in 1918 of the martyrdom of St. Vladimir (Bogoiavlensikii) , Metropolitan of Kiev , who is referred to as the ...
The Russian Orthodox church was drastically weakened in May 1922, when the Renovated (Living) Church, a reformist movement backed by the Soviet secret police, broke away from Patriarch Tikhon (also see the Josephites and the Russian True Orthodox Church), a move that caused division among clergy and faithful that persisted until 1946.
He was taken by the Bolsheviks out of town where he was summarily shot. By this act, Kochurov became the proto-hieromartyr of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church who suffered during the Bolshevik revolution and under the Soviet yoke. Kochurov was buried several days later in the crypt of St. Catherine's Cathedral.
Confessor of the Faith is a title given by some Christian traditions. In Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, Christians who professed their faith in times of Christian persecution and therefore had to suffer persecution, exile, torture, mutilation and/or imprisonment, but not directly undergo martyrdom, are called confessors (Latin: confessores). [1]
Now this side-altar is dedicated to the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church. After attending the consecration of the Feodorovsky Cathedral on January 15, 1914, Emperor Nicholas II noted: "The Church produces an excellent impression: it is high, bright, beautiful".
Tikhon organized construction of a huge Cathedral to New Martyrs and Confessors of Russian Church in the historical centre of Moscow, Lubyanka.The construction is considered controversial as the newly-built cathedral (55 meters high) would be much higher than Dormition Cathedral in Moscow Kremlin (45 meters high).
Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky (1877–1961), Eastern Orthodox saint and bishop; Pope Martin I (590/600–655), Catholic and Orthodox saint; Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662), Byzantine civil servant, Christian monk, theologian and scholar; Michael of Synnada (died 826), Catholic and Orthodox saint, bishop of Synnada