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==Twentieth century (1901-2000)==
*1900 [[Martyrs of China|Martyrdom of Orthodox Christians]] in Chinese Boxer Rebellion (Yihetuan Movement).
*1905 Death of Parthenios Koudouma Monastery, [[July 10]], ; [[Apostolos Makrakis]].
*1907 Death of [[Ilia the Righteous]], [[July 20]]
*1908 Death of [[John of Kronstadt]].
*1917-40 [[w:Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union|Persecution of the Orthodox Church in Russia]] begins, with 130,000 priests arrested, 95,000 of whom were executed by firing squad.
*1917 Martyrdom of hieromartyr [[John Kochurov]]
*1918 Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia]] murdered together with his wife [[Alexandra Romanov|Alexandra]] and children; [[Elizabeth the New Martyr]], [[July 18]], ; [[Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) of Kiev and Gallich|St. Vladimir]], ; [[January 25]]; [[Theophanes (Il'minskii) of Solikamsk|St. Theophanes]], [[Decembre 11]];
*1919-1922 [[w:Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War]]; [[w:Pontic Greek Genocide|Pontic Greek Genocide]] eliminates the Christian population of Trebizond.
*1920 Death of [[Nektarios of Aegina]]. ; Evmenios of Koudouma Monastery, [[July 10]]
*1922 Death of Metr. [[Bejamin (Kazansky) of Petrograd and Gdovsk]], [[July 31]].
*1924 Death of [[Arsenios the Cappadocian]], [[November 10]]
*1925 Death of [[Tikhon of Moscow]]; St. [[Jonah of Manchuria]], Bishop of Hankou (1922-1925). ; *1932 Death of [[Papa-Nicholas (Planas) of Athens]];
*1936-37 Many Russian Orthodox Clerics die in Joseph Stalin's [[w:Great Purge|Great Purge]].
*1937 Disappearance of Fr. [[Alexander Hotovitzky]], martyred. *1938 Death of [[Silouan the Athonite]].;
*1941 Martyrdom of [[Gorazd (Pavlik) of Prague]] by Nazis; [[Platon of Banja Luka]], [[May 5]]; [[Petar (Zimonjić) of Dabar-Bosna]],
*1941-45 Croatian [[w:Ustaše|Ustasa]] terrorists kill 500,000 Orthodox Serbs, expel 250,000 and force 250,000 to convert to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]].
*1956 Death of [[Nikolai Velimirovic]], [[March 18]].
*1959 Death of [[George (Karslidis) of Drama]], [[November 4]].
*1960 Death of [[Anthimos of Chios]] [[February 15]], ; John (Iacob) the Romanian (the Hozevite),[[ August 5]]
*1964 Death of [[Varnava Nastic]], [[November 12]].
*1966 Death of [[John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker]], Archbishop of Shanghai and San Fransisco, [[July 2]].
*1970 Death of Archpriest [[Stefan Wu Zhiquan]] .<ref>http://www.orthodox.cn/localchurch/harbin/stefanwu_en.htm</ref>, the new martyr.
*1975 Death of Papa-[[Dimitris (Gagastathis)]].
*1979 Death of [[Mathushka|matushka]] [[Olga Michael]], [[November 8]], ; [[Justin Popovich]], ; Archimandrite Philoumenos, [[November 16]],;
*1980 Death of Elder [[Philotheos (Zervakos)]] of Paros.
*1982 Death of [[Seraphim Rose]]
*1983 Death of Elder [[Arsenios the cave-dweller of Mt. Athos]].
*1991 Death of Elder [[Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) the Kapsokalivite]] ; (Evangelos (Bairaktaris)), [[February 7]].
*1992 Deaths of [[Gabrielia (Papayannis)]] and [[Chrysanthi of Andros]].
*1993 Canonization of [[Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna]].
