We ask your prayers for the clergy and the monastics who reposed in the Lord from the beginning of the pandemic as a result of complications caused by the coronavirus infection. This prayer list contains the names of those who had COVID stated as their cause of death in the official church resources.
December 20
Fr. Pavel Voronchikhin, aged 53, of Urzhum Diocese, rector of St. Nicholas Church in the village of Biserovo, Afanasyevsk district.
December 9
Fr. Sergiy Reshetov, aged 59, of Tambov Diocese, a full-time priest of the Pokrovsky Cathedral in Tambov.
December 7
Archpriest Alexander Kuropatkin, aged 84, of Ryazan diocese, pastor emeritus of Our Lady of Kazan church, village of Konstantinovo.
December 4
Monk Silouan (Kriuchkov), aged 64, of the Holy Dormition Pskov Caves Monastery, most recently residing in Moscow Region due to health issues.
Archpriest Yevgeny Kopylov, aged 49, of Kaluga Diocese, rector of Martyr John the Soldier Church, Kaluga.
December 3
Archpriest Vladimir Kovtunenko, aged 58, of Moscow City Diocese, rector of St. Stephen of Perm Church in Yuzhnoye Butovo, Moscow.
December 1
Hieromonk Panteleimon (Shibanov), aged 52, of the Sanaxar Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God, Krasnoslobodsk Diocese.
Archpriest Dimitri Zakharov, aged 71, Oryol diocese, full-time priest of the Akhtyrsky Cathedral, Oryol.
November 30
Hierodeacon Sabbas (Mityukhin), aged 51, of the Tikhvin Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Tikhvin Diocese.
November 23
Fr. Kirill Popelsky, aged 34, of Kolomna Diocese, rector of the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Kratovo village, Ramensky district, Moscow Region.
Fr. Vyacheslav Kaplin, aged 42, of Bryansk Diocese, rector of the Church to the Holy Martyrs Vera, Hope, Love and their Mother Sophia, Sinezerky settlement.
Archpriest Vladimir Kharin, aged 74, of Sarapul Diocese, rector of the Church of Dormition of the Mother of God in Yaromaska village, Sarapul district.
November 17
Hieromonk German (Ganziuk), aged 48, of Volgodonsk Diocese, rector of Prophet Elijah Church in Kuznetsovka farmstead, Rostov region.
November 15
Fr. Igor Sekreta, aged 41, of Kalach Diocese, rector of the Holy Princess Olga Church and rector of the "Saint Innocent" floating church Pyatimorsk settlement, Kalach district, Volgograd region.
November 14
Archimandrite Hilarion (Kilganov), aged 75, father confessor of the Diocese of Petrozavodsk and rector of the Vazheozersk Savior Transfiguration Monastery.
November 13
Archpriest Nikolai Pashkevich, aged 72, of Voronezh Diocese, full-time priest of St. Xenia of Petersburg Church in Voronezh.
November 11
Fr. Deacon Maxim Makartsev, aged 43, of Nizhny Novgorod Diocese, a full-time clergyman of the Church of All Saints in Sarov.
November 10
Fr. Nikolai Vasilyev, aged 65, of Cheboksary Diocese, rector of the Church to the Protection Veil of the Mother of God, Pokrovskoye village.
November 9
Fr. Valeriy Karpukhin, aged 36, of Kazan Diocese, rector of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Church, Krasnaya Gorka settlement, Kazan.
Archpriest Nikolai Shcherbakov, aged 79, of Ekaterinodar Diocese, rector of the Archangel Michael Church in Krasnodar.
November 8
Archpriest Sergiy Zhabura, aged 60, of Nizhny Novgorod Diocese, senior priest of the Pokrov Monastery in Lukino village of Bogorodsky district and rector of three churches of the Bogorodsky Deanery: Church of the Protection Veil of the Most Holy Mother of God in Dudenevo, the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church in Arapovo, and the Holy Archangel Michael Church Khabarskoye.
November 7
Archpriest Sergiy Parshuto, aged 84, of Kostroma Diocese, full-time priest of the Holy Hierarch Tikhon Church in Kostroma.
November 6
Fr. Vladimir Bredikhin, aged 64, of Akhtubinsk Diocese, full-time priest of Our Lady of Don Icon of the Mother of God Church in Grachi village.
November 5
Archpriest Kirill Chernetsky, aged 91, of Moscow Diocese, rector emeritus of St. Dimitry Prilutsky Church at Devichye Pole in Moscow.
November 4
Archimandrite Vlasiy (Peregontsev), aged 87, father confessor of St. Paphnutius Borovsk monastery of Kaluga Diocese.
Abbess Veronica (Molochkova), aged 73, the abbess of the Achayeersky Holy Cross Convent of Omsk Diocese.
Archpriest Alexander Stepanchenko, aged 70, of Ekaterinodar Diocese, rector of the Archangel Gabriel Church, Novomyshastovskaya Cossack village.
November 3
Archpriest Benjamin Sergeyev, aged 62, of Syzran Diocese, full-time priest of Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral Church, Syzran.
Hierarch Vladimir Mikhaltsov, aged 62, of Ryazan Diocese, rector of St. Luke Voino-Yasenetsky Church on the grounds of Ryazan’s military hospital and Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon Church at the Malshinskaya almshouse in Ryazan.
November 2
Fr. Vladimir Avseyenko, aged 64, of Uvarovsk Diocese, rector of Sts. Kosmas and Damian Church of Kosmodemyanovka village, Gavrilovsky district.
November 1
Fr. Sergiy Shakhov, aged 42, of Aleksandrov Diocese, full-time priest of St. Athanasius of Kovrov Church in Petushki.
October 30
Archpriest MICHAEL Kontsevich, aged 64, of Brest Diocese of the Belarusian Exarchate, rector of the Holy Apostle John the Evangelist parish church of Cherevachitsy village, Kobrin district.
October 29
Fr. Nikolai Chemes, aged 32, of Troitsk Diocese, full-time priest of the Holy Trinity Cathedral Church in Troitsk.
October 27
Archpriest Gregory Secretarev, aged 65, of Pskov Diocese, rector of St. Nicholas Church in Panikovichi settlement, Pechory District.
Nun Chrisantha (Sokolova), aged 48, of the Skorbyashensky Convent of the Nizhny Tagil Diocese.
October 26
Archpriest Victor Bokovets, aged 82, of Novogrudsk Diocese of the Belarusian Exarchate, rector of the Savior Transfiguration Cathedral Church in Slonim.
Fr. Sergiy Opria, aged 48, of Rostov-on-Don Diocese, rector of the Dormition Church in the village of Latonovo, Matveevo-Kurgan district.
Fr. Alexander Mukhametov, aged 73, of Volgograd Diocese, rector of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Novozhiznenskaya settlement. Rector of the Resurrection of Christ Church in Novozhiznenskoye settlement of Gorodishchy Deanery.
October 25
Archpriest John Podvornyak, aged 59, of Tobolsk Diocese, rector of St. Nicholas Church in Utyashevo village of Tyumen district.
October 24
Abbess Magdalene (Prozherina), aged 84, abbess of the Holy Protection Convent in Kamensk Diocese.
Hieromonk Joasaph (Bardunov), aged 73, of Yaroslavl Diocese, from the Savior-St. Athanasius monastery in Yaroslavl.
October 23
Archpriest Alexander Lavrukhin, aged 87, of Moscow Diocese, clergyman of the “Unexpected Joy” Icon of the Mother of God Church in Maryina Roscha, Moscow.
October 21
Hieromonk Kirill (Khorolsky), aged 50, of Kursk Diocese, rector of St. Nicholas Church in Nikolskoye village and the Epiphany Church Shestopalovo village, Zolotukhinsky district of Kursk region.
Fr. Nikolai Gorbachonok, aged 67, of the Molodechno Diocese of the Belarusian Exarchate, rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Krivichi village, Myadel district.
October 20
Hieromonk Elijah (Gapanenok), aged 67, clergyman of Shuya Diocese, rector of St. George's Church in Sedelnitsy village of Komsomolsk district.
Archpriest Sergiy Zimmer, aged 62, clergyman of the Alapaevsk Diocese, head of the social services department of the Alapaevsk Diocese, member of the Diocesan Council, dean of Turin deanery, rector of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Church in Tavda.
October 18
Archpriest Nikolai Rebenkov, aged 70, of Kineshma Diocese, dean of Kineshma deanery, rector of the Dormition Church in Navoloki.
Deacon ANDREI Lubavin, aged 30, clergyman of Simbirsk Diocese, full-time priest of St. Spyridon of Tremithus Church, Ulyanovsk.
October 16
Hieromonk OnuphrY (Larin), aged 39, clergyman of Tikhvin Diocese, Secretary of the Tikhvin Diocesan Administration, rector of St. ANDREI Cathedral in Volkhov, Leningrad Region.
October 15
Hieromonk Nikandr (Yurdonov), aged 43, clergyman of Buzuluk Diocese, rector of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God Church in Derzhavino village, Buzuluk disrict.
October 14
Archpriest Vladimir Peredernin, aged 68, clergyman of the Vladimir Diocese, rector of Ascension Church in Vladimir, father confessor of the Zapadnoye Deanery.
October 13
Archpriest Georgiy Ushakov, aged 83, clergyman of Pskov Diocese, rector of the Archangel Michael Church in Melnitsy village, Pskov district.
October 10
Archpriest Vladimir Smirnov, aged 64, clergyman of the Shuya diocese, rector of the "Surety of Sinners" Icon of the Mother of God Church in Zimenki village, Shuya district.
October 8
Hieromonk Elijah (Zykin), aged 54, attached clergyman of Alexandrov Diocese.
October 7
Deacon Victor Petrov, aged 60, clergyman of Pskov Diocese, the Church of the Protection Veil of the Most Holy Mother of God Church "At Marketplace" in Pskov (metochion of the Pskov Caves Monastery).
October 6
Fr. Sergiy Demidov, aged 50, clergyman of Pskov Diocese, rector of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church on Belov Island, Pskov district.
October 5
Nun Barsonophia (Morozova), aged 77, from the Snetogorsk Nativity of the Mother of God Convent, Pskov Diocese.
October 4
Hieromonk Nikolai (Khalimonenko), aged 82, a clergyman of Buzuluk diocese, from the Buzuluk Savior-Transfiguration monastery.
October 3
Fr. Alexiy Petukhov, aged 49, of Moscow Diocese, rector of the Church to All Venerable Fathers of Kiev Caves Monastery, the Patriarchal Metochion Church in Cheremushki, Moscow.
October 2
Archpriest Alexander Gavrilenko, aged 71, clergyman of Salavat Diocese, senior priest of the “Inexhaustible Cup” Icon of the Mother of God Metochion Church of the Pokrovsky monastery in Dedovo village, Salavat.
September 26
Archpriest Gregory Petrenko, aged 91, clergyman of the Orenburg Diocese, who for more than 40 years served as rector of the Church of the Protection Veil of the Most Holy Mother of God in Verkhnyaya Platovka village, Novosergievsky district, Orenburg Region.
September 23
Archpriest Vladimir Petrov, aged 72, clergyman of the Alexandrov Diocese, rector of the Holy Protection Church in the village of Davydovskoye.
September 19
Hieromonk Anatoly (Bachurin), aged 48, clergyman of Yekaterinburg Diocese from the Verkhoturye St. Nicholas Monastery and the rector of the Holy Passion-Bearer Tsarevich Alexiy Church in the village of Kashino.
Archpriest Georgiy Trofimenko, aged 82, clergyman of the Armavir Diocese, rector of St. Nicholas Church in Spokoynaya village, Otradnensky district, Krasnodar Region.
September 15
Fr. Sergiy Bondarev, aged 56, clergyman of Alexandrov Diocese, rector of St. Michael the Archangel Church in the village of Golovino.
September 14
Hieromonk Stratonik (Svishchev), aged 43, clergyman of Valuy Diocese, rector of the Church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki in Razdornoye village.
September 11
Hieromonk Jacob (Gryaznov), aged 51, clergyman of Novosibirsk Diocese, on obedience to serve at the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God Church in the village of Ilyino, Klepikov district, Kasimov Diocese.
September 10
Fr. Sergiy Bondarenko, aged 44, clergyman of the Orenburg Diocese, full-time priest of Our Lady of Kazan Icon of the Mother of God Church in Ponomaryovka village.
Fr. VYacheslav Zikunkov, aged 71, clergyman of Ryazan Diocese, rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in the village of Deulino.
September 7
Abbess Vitalia (Kochetova), aged 53, the abbess of the Holy Dormition-St. Thecla Pustyn Convent in the Diocese of Kozelsk.
September 6
Igumen Arseniy (Mosalev), aged 53, of the Entrance of the Theotokos Optina Pustyn Monastery, acting rector of the Patriarchal Metochion Church of the Protecting Veil of the Most Holy Mother of God in Nevsky woodland park in the Vsevolzhsk district, Leningrad Region.
September 3
Hieromonk Job (Morozov), aged 69, of the Korennaya hermitage to the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Kursk Diocese.
Fr. Alexander Anshukov, aged 66, clergyman of Arkhangelsk Diocese, rector of the Church to the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God (the church to St. Anthony of Siysk) in Kekhta (Grigorovsky village, Kholmogorsk district).
Archpriest Vasily Drabot, aged 43, clergyman of Gorlovka Diocese, rector of St. Basil Church in Gorlovka, Donetsk Region, Ukraine.
September 2
Archpriest Vladimir Andreyev, aged 63, clergyman of Podolsk Diocese, rector of All Saints Church and St. Nicholas Church in Serpukhov, Moscow Region.
September 1
Fr. Sergiy Muravyev, aged 45, clergyman of the Ryazan Diocese, rector of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Church in the village of Dubrovichi.
August 31
Fr. Alexiy Leontiev, aged 43, clergyman of Gornoaltaisk Diocese, rector of the Dormition of the Mother of God Church in the village of Choya.
August 29
Hierodeacon Elijah (Tepikin), aged 40, of the Savior-Transfiguration Monastery on Valaam.
August 28
Archpriest ANDREI Tabachenkov, aged 62, clergyman of Kolomna Diocese, serving at the Dormition Church in Bronnitsy.
August 27
Fr. Sergiy Tokarenko, aged 48, clergyman of Rossoshansk Diocese, rector of the Church to the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Staraya Kriusha village.
August 22
Nun MiCHaEla (Sokolova), aged 71, on obedience to restore the Tikhvin Convent in Biysk Diocese.
August 20
Abbess Maria (Ponomaryova), aged 82, the abbess of Martha and Mary Convent, Diocese of Vladivostok.
August 15
Archpriest Peter Lesnikov, aged 44, clergyman of Skopin Diocese, dean of the First Korablinsky Deanery, rector of the Protection Church in Korablino.
August 14
Monk Nil (Drozdovich), aged 48, of the Verkhoturye St. Nicholas Monastery, Ekaterinburg Diocese.
August 13
Nun Vitalia (Piskureva), aged 78, of the Novospassky Convent in Moscow.
August 3
Fr. Alexander Kuzin, aged 47, clergyman of the Bryansk Diocese, rector of the Church of Kaluzhskaya Icon of the Mother of God, Lokot settlement.
August 2
Archpriest Nikolai Mikhalev, aged 93, retired clergyman of Abakan Diocese.
July 29
Monk Thaddeus (Kosinov), aged 60, of the Ploshchansky Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery in Bryansk Diocese.
Hierarch Gabriel (Berestnev), aged 62, of the Kamennobrodsky Holy Trinity Monastery of Uryupinsk Diocese.
July 28
Protodeacon VYacheslav Palyanitsa, aged 61, clergyman of St. Petersburg Diocese.
Nun Andronica (Piskureva), aged 82, of the Novospassky Convent in Moscow.
July 22
Archimandrite Methodius (Petrov), aged 60, of the Saviour Transfiguration Monastery on Valaam, director of the “Light of Valaam” Orthodox Cultural and Educational Center.
July 17
Archpriest Alexander Tochilov, aged 67, clergyman of the Metochion Church of the Valaam Monastery in St. Petersburg.
July 16
Igumen Seraphim (Sergeyev), aged 49, clergyman of Skopin Diocese, dean of Shatsk Deanery, and rector of the Trinity Cathedral in Shatsk.
Fr. Alexander Khokhlov, aged 67, clergyman of Penza Diocese, attached to the Chapel of Great Martyr George the Victory Bearer in Bessonovka.
Monk Spyridon (Khalin), aged 69, clergyman of Arsenyevsk Diocese, head of the missionary department.
July 14
Archpriest Igor Sedov, aged 45, clergyman of Tver Diocese, rector of Our Lady of Kazan Church in the village of Mednoye.
July 13
Nun Marina (Zakharova), aged 42, of the Convent to the Holy Royal Passion-bearers in the village of Domnino, Susaninsky district, Kostroma Region.
July 11
Archpriest Alexander Demianov, aged 51, clergyman of Vologda Diocese, dean of the parishes in Gryazovets Deanery, rector of the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Gryazovets.
Fr. NikolaI Seleznyov, aged 59, clergyman of the Moscow City Diocese, full-time priest of the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands Icon on Setun, Moscow.
July 3
Monk IpatY (Kireyev), St. George Meschov Monastery, Kaluga Diocese.
July 4
Archpriest Roman Sosinovich, aged 45, dean of the Chkalovsky Deanery of Viksun Diocese.
June 22
Archimandrite Pankraty (Nagibin), aged 59, clergyman of the Trinity Cathedral in Yaransk, father confessor of Yaransk Diocese.
June 17
Monk Spyridon (Zorkin), aged 64, of the Holy Smolensk Zosimova Pustyn Hermitage, Alexandrov Diocese.
June 18
Fr. Dimitry Muravyov, aged 45, clergyman of the Ekaterinburg Diocese, serving at the Ascension Archpastoral Metochion Church in Ekaterinburg.
June 3
Bishop Arkady (Afonin), retired, aged 77, rector of St. Pimen the Great Church in Noviye Vorotniki, Moscow.
Archpriest Vasily Kaptsosh, aged 56, clergyman of Chernigov Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, rector of the Archangel Michael Church in Naumovka village.
May 31
Archpriest LeV Semyonov, aged 75, clergyman of Moscow Diocese, a priest of the Church to Holy Hierarch Nicholas of Myra in Lycia in Kuznetskaya Sloboda, Moscow, head of the Spiritual and Educational Center of the Orthodox St. Tikhon University of the Humanities.
May 26
Fr. Alexander Mishin, aged 58, clergyman of the Moscow Diocese, attached to the Church of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Yasenevo, the Metochion church of the Optina Pustyn Monastery in Moscow.
May 19
Archpriest Igor Boyev, aged 63, clergyman of the Volgograd Diocese, serving at the Church to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Volgograd.
May 17
Archpriest Alexiy Kachapkin, aged 55, clergyman of Tikhvin Diocese, senior priest of the Protection Veil Tervenichesky Monastery.
May 11
Archpriest Philip Filatov, aged 91, clergyman of Moscow Diocese, attached to the St. Nicholas of Myra in Lycia Church in Zelenograd.
May 8
Archpriest Alexander Shestak, aged 71, clergyman of Moscow Diocese, attached to the Annunciation Church in Petrovsky Park, Moscow, the head of the department on cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Synodal Department on сooperation with the armed forces and law enforcement agencies.
April 18
Fr. NikolaI Nikishin, aged 69, clergyman of Korsun Diocese of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Western Europe, rector of the metochion church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port.
April 12
Archpriest Victor Sokolov, aged 76, clregyman of the Uvarovo Diocese of Tambov Metropolia, rector of Holy Archangel Michael Church in Inzhavino.
April 3
Fr. Alexiy Borisov, aged 44, clergyman of Savior-Transfiguration Monastery of Vyatka Diocese in Kirov, head of the legal department of Vyatka Diocese, chairman of the Church Court of Vyatka Diocese.
March 28
Fr. Vladimir Ilyinykh, aged 63, clergyman of Yugra Diocese, rector of St. Stephen of Great Perm Church in Kazym village.
February 23
Fr. Feodor Pogodin, aged 40, clergyman of Nizhny Novgorod Diocese, rector of the Resurrection of Christ Church, Voskresensk Deanery (Dzerzhinsk).
February 19
Fr. Peter Moscalionov, aged 83, clergyman of Moscow Diocese, a cleric of St. Elisabeth Church in Opalikha village.
February 16
Archimandrite PaisiUs (Markin), aged 59, clergyman of Moscow Diocese, rector of the Church to the Nativity of the Mother of God in Marfino.
January 24
Archpriest Vasily Vilusk, aged 67, clergyman of Voronezh Diocese, rector of the Nativity of Christ Church in Liski.
January 21
Archpriest Vitaly Tarasov, aged 68, clergyman of Yaroslavl Dsiocese, rector of Sts. Kosmas and Damian Church in Rostov Veliky.
January 14
Archpriest Alexander Rozhdestvin, aged 68, clergyman of Moscow Diocese, full-time priest of the Church to Grebnevskaya Icon of the Mother of God and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Grebnyovo village.
January 13
Archpriest Feodor Androshchuk, aged 64, clergyman of Uryupinsk Diocese, rector of the Epiphany church in Frolovo.
January 12
Metropolitan Filaret (Vakhromeyev), aged 85, Patriarchal Exarch Emeritus of All Belarus.
Archpriest NikolaI Beliayev, aged 82, senior priest of St. John Monastery on Karpovka in St. Petersburg.
January 10
Archpriest Anatoly Volgin, aged 74, clergyman of Tver Diocese, rector of St. Ambrose of Optina Church in the village of Kuvshinovo.
January 8
Hierodeacon Vasily (Zelenkin), aged 39, spokesman of the Kainsk Diocese, clergyman of the Cathedral to the Nativity of St. John the Baptist in Kuibyshev.
January 6
Monk AlipIy Mikhailov, aged 66, of the Anthony Dymsky Monastery of Tikhvin Diocese.
January 5
Archpriest Victor Shalnev, aged 66, clergyman of Tambov Diocese, rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Tambov.
Fr. Oleg Burlakov, aged 58, clergyman of Shakhty Diocese, rector of St. Panteleimon the Healer Church in Gukovo.
Archpriest John Simora, aged 64, the oldest clergyman of Kalach Diocese, rector of the Church of Protection of the Mother of God in Sredniaya Akhtuba settlement.
January 3
Archpriest Dimitry Khodov, aged 80, senior priest, father confessor of the Pyukhtitsy Dormition Convent, clergyman of the Tallinn Diocese of the Estonian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate.
January 3
Archpriest Gennady Plokhov, aged 56, clergyman of the Neftekamsk Diocese, rector of the Holy Archangel Michael Church in Belebey.
January 2
Archimandrite Sergiy (Obyedkov), aged 75, clergyman of Moscow Diocese, full-time priest at the Church of the Presentation of the Most Holy Mother of God, the Patriarchal Metochion in Chernyovo, Moscow.
January 1
Archpriest Igor Nikoforov, aged 57, clergyman of Orsk Diocese, rector of St. John of Kronstadt Cathedral in Gai, the dean of Gai deanery.
May God give rest to the souls of His departed servants in Russia and around the world
See a list of those in the Russian Church who died from COVID in 2020.
