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1901+
- 1901 No saints recorded
- 1902 Jonah (Peter in schema), founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev, January 9
- 1903 St. Cornelius, monk of Krypets Monastery in Pskov, December 28.
- 1905 Parthenios Koudouma Monastery, July 10; Apostolos Makrakis, December 25.
- 1906 Barnabas, elder of the Gethsemane Skete of St. Sergius Lavra, February 17;
- 1907 Ilia the Righteous, July 20
- 1908 John of Kronstadt.
- 1909 Alexis of Wilkes-Barre, May 7.
- 1912 Nicholas of Japan, February 3.
- 1913 Barsanuphius, Venerable of Optina, April 1
- 1914 Maxim Sandovich, August 6
- 1915 Raphael of Brooklyn.
- 1917-40 Persecution of the Orthodox Church in Russia begins, with 130,000 priests arrested, 95,000 of whom were executed by firing squad.
- 1917 Alexis, Venerable of Goloseyevsky Skete, Kiev Caves, March 11, John Kochurov, hieromonk, missionary, and hieromartyr, November 13
1918
- 1918 Jeremiah, Hieromartyr, January 1; John Piankov and Nicholas Yakhontov priests, January 5; St. Vladimir; January 25; Peter (Skipetrov) of Petrograd, Archpriest, New Hieromartyr, February 1; Michael Lisitsyn , the priest of Ust-Labinskaya, Russia, February 22; Joseph Smirnov the protoierey, John Kastorsky the deacon, Vladimir Ilinsky the priest, hieromartyrs and John Perebaskin the martyr, February 22; Tsar Nicholas II of Russia murdered together with his wife Alexandra and children; Elizabeth the New Martyr, July 18; St. Theophanes, December 11; Sergy (Florinsky) of Rakvere, December 17; Michael the priest, December 21; Saints of Ivangorod: Dimitry (Chistoserdov) and Alexander (Volkov) December 26; Alexander and Demetrius priests, December 26; Nikodim, bishop of Belgorod and Arcadius deacon, December 28; Peter and Prokhor the Martyrs, April 11; Sergius (Trofimov) of Nizhni-Novgorod, the New Martyr, and one with him, April 14; John, priest and New Hieromartyr, April 17; Bessarion the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 18; John the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 21; Eustaphius the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 22; Egor (George), Priest of Spas Chekriak village, Russia, New Hieromartyr, April 23; John the priest and the new hieromartyr, and his childrens, Martyrs Nicholas and Peter, April 26
1919
- 1919 Death of Saints of Tartu: Platon (Kulbush) bishop of Tallinn, Michael (Bleive) and Nicholas (Bezhanitsky) January 1; Andrew (Zimin), Archpriest, his wife Lydia, his mother-in-law Domnica, his two daughters and his servant Maria, of Ussurisk January 6; Nicholas, Theodore and Vladimir priests, Hieromartyrs, January 11; John priest, Hieromartyr, January 16; Michael the priest, New Hieromartyr, January 18; Basil and Gabriel the priests, February 13; Nicholas, Saint March 5; Nicolas, priest and New Hieromartyr, March 13; Alexander, the New Hieromartyr and priest, March 17; Paul (Voinarsky) the Priest and brothers Paul and Alexis Kiryan, of the Crimea, new martyrs, March 29; Tikhon, archbishop of Voronezh and with him 160 martyred priests, December 27;
1919+
- 1919-1922 Greco-Turkish War; Pontic Greek Genocide eliminates the Christian population of Trebizond.
- 1920 Zenobius priest, Hieromartyr, January 10; John and Leontius priests, new hieromartyrs, Constantine deacon and with them 5 Martyrs, January 29; Silvester (Olshevsky), bishop of Omsk and Pavlodar, New Hieromartyr, February 13, Methodius the new hieromartyr and Anastasia Andreyevna, fool-for-Christ March 1, Vladimir the priest, New Hieromartyr, March 24; Nektarios of Aegina; Evmenios of Koudouma Monastery, July 10; Martyr Alexander the priest, December 28;
- 1921 Joseph Hieromartyr and with him 37 Martyrs, January 5; Methodius bishop of Petropavlovsk, New Hieromartyr, February 4; Demetrius priest and Anatolius the Martyrs February 6; Lyubov of Ryazan, fool-for Christ, February 8; Gregory, priest and New Hieromartyr, March 13;
- 1922 Benjamin (Kazansky) of Petrograd and Gdovsk, July 31; Paul and John priests, New Hieromartyrs, Peter, Nicholas, Auksentius, Sergius and Anastasia the Martyrs, April 27;
- 1923 Alexis (Shushania), hieromonk of Teklati, Georgia, venerable, January 18; John, priest and New Hieromartyr, March 8, Agafangel (Preobrazhensky) of Yaroslavl, October 3,
- 1924 Antonina, Abbess of Kizliar, New Hieromartyr, March 1; Arsenios the Cappadocian, November 10
- 1925 Tikhon of Moscow, (b. 1865), March 25; St. Jonah of Manchuria, Bishop of Hankou (b. 1922),[[]];
- 1926 Macarius, metropolitan of Moscow, apostle to the Altai, February 16
- 1927 Ambrose the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, March 16
- 1928 Benjamin (Kononov) the Archimandrite and Nicephorus (Kuchin) the Hieromonk of Solovki, New Hieromartyrs, April 4; Nektarius Venerable of Optina Monastery, April 29; Innocentius the Hieromartyr December 24,
- 1929 Peter archbishop of Voronezh, New Hieromartyr, January 25;
- 1930 Peter priest, Hieromartyr, January 10; Benjamin, bishop of Romanov, New Hieromartyr January 15; Eugine the priest, New Hieromartyr, January 18; Nicholas priest, New Hieromartyr, January 19; Basil bishop of Priluksk, new hieromartyr, January 25; Maria of Gatchina, New Martyr, January 26, Basil the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 6; Basil the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 9; Peter and Valerian the, priests New Hieromartyrs, February 10; Alexius (Buy), bishop of Voronezh, New Hieromartyr, February 12; Michael Piataev and John Kumin the priests, New Hieromartyrs, February 15; Alexander, Daniel and Gregory priests and New Hieromartyrs, February 21; Peter the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 26; Nicholas priest and New Hieromartyr, March 7; Alexis the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 5; Alexander, priest and New Hieromartyr, April 15; Basil Derzhavin, priest and hieromartyr, and lay people of the city of Gorodets, Nizhni-Novgorod, April 18; Michael the priest December 25, Hieromartyrs Nicolas priests and Michael deacon December 26;
- 1931 Victor priest, Hieromartyr, January 17; Athanasia, (Lepeshkin) Abbess of Zosima Hermitage, New Martyr, January 25; Mitrophan, archpriest and New Martyr, February 12; Peter Lagov, priest in Moscow, New Hieromartyr, February 16; Mitrophan Buchnoff, Archpriest in Voronezh, New Hieromartyr, March 9; Vladimir the priest, New Hieromartyr, March 21; Nicolas the priest, New Hieromartyr, March 28; Michael, saint, fool-for-Christ, April 1; Nicholas, priest of Kronstadt, April 5;
- 1932 Vladimir the confessor, priest, January 11; Alexander (Medvedsky) the priest, New Hieromartyrs, February 18; Vladimir, priest and Hieromartyr, February 18; Sergius the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 27; Papa-Nicholas (Planas) of Athens, March 2; John the confessor, March 19; Nicholas bishop of Velsk, the New Hieromartyr and the martyr Mary, April 4;
- 1933 Alexander, Stephen and Philippe priests, Hieromartyrs, January 4; Eugenia, the Virgin-martyr, January 5; Theodore the confessor, priest , January 28; Vladimir priest, new hieromartyr, January 30; Sergius priest, New Hieromartyr, February 26; Dimitry Ivanov, Archpriest in Kiev, New Hieromartyr, March 4; Patrikius the confessor, venerable, March 11; Alexander the confessor and priest, March 12; Stephen (Bekh), bishop of Izhevsk, New Hieromartyr, March 13; Micael the priest, New Hieromartyr, March 29; John the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 4; Arcadius the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 7; Sergius the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 8; Stephen (Bekh) bishop of Izhevsk, New Hieromartyr, April 13; Nicholas the confessor, priest, April 21;
- 1934 Sergius priest, Hieromartyr, January 5; Elias Chetverukhin, priest of Moscow, New Hieromartyr, February 16; John the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 6; Victor, bishop of Glazov, New Hieromartyr, April 19;
- 1935 Michael, priest and confessor, new hieromartyr, April 17;
- 1936 Theoktista Michailovna, fool-for-Christ of Voronezh, the New Martyr, February 22;
- 1936-37 Many Russian Orthodox Clerics die in Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.
1937
- 1937 Victor the priest, Hieromartyr, January 8; Cyril, metropolitan of Kazan, new hieromartyr, January 26; Basil Nadezhnin, Priest in Moscow, New Hieromartyr, February 6; Barlaam archbishop of Perm, New Hieromartyr, February 7; Onisimus, bishop of Tula, New Hieromartyr, February 14; Anna the martyr, February 26; Olga the New Hieromartyr, March 1; Vyacheslav (Leontiev) of Nizhegorod, Priest and new hieromartyr, March 4; Basil, priest and New Hieromartyr, March 11, Nicholas, Priest, New Hieromartyr, April 18; Theodosius, bishop of Kolomensk, New Hieromartyr, April 20 Karp (Elb), September 11; Sergius the Hieromartyr, Disappearance of Fr. Alexander Hotovitzky, martyred, December 4; December 21; Hieromartyrs Leonidas bishop of Mariysk, Andrew bishop of Ufa, Alexander priest, Anthisa, Makaria and Valentina December 26; Martyr Antonina, December 27; Hieromartyrs Theoctistus, Leonid priests, December 28; Michael Hieromartyr priest December 31;
1938
- 1938 Alexander, archbishop of Samara and with him John, Alexander, John, Alexander, Trophime, Viacheslav, Basil and James priests, New Hieromartyrs, January 1; Matthew, Martyr January 5; Paphnutius, Martyr, January 7; Demetrius, Vladimir priests hieromartyrs, Michael Martyr January 8; Anatolius, Metropolitan of Odessa, New Hieromartyr, January 10; Paul the priest, hieromartyr, January 17, Vladimir, Nicholas, Sergius Alexander priests, New Hieromartyrs, January 18; Elias the priest, New Hieromartyr, January 21; John, Nicholas, Jacob, Peter, John, John, John and Euthymius priest, new hieromartyrs, January 22; Seraphim the new mieromartyr, martyrs Evdokia, Ecaterine and Militsa, January 23; Stephen priest, martyr Boris, January 25; Ignatius bishop of Skopinsk, Arcadius, Vladimir and Bartholomeus the hieromartyrs, and John and Olga the Martyrs, January 28; Nicholas the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 1; Basil the priest, New Hieromartyr, and Michael the Martyr, February 2; John, Timothy priests, New Hieromartyrs, and Vladimir, Martyr, February 3; Eustaphius, John, Alexander, Sergius, John, Theodora, Aleksander, Nicholas, Alexis, Nicholas, Alexis, Alexander, Arcadius, Boris, Michael, Nicholas, Alexis, Andrew, Demetrius, John, Peter priests, the New Hieromartyrs, Martyrs Seraphim, Rafaila, Anna, Catherine, John, Basil, Demetrius, Theodore, and Demetrius, February 4; Matushka Agatha of Bielorussia, New Martyrs, February 5; Alexander the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 6; Alexander the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 7; Simeon, Andrew, Sergius and Peter, priests and the New Hieromartyrs, February 8; John the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 9; Anatole (Greesiuk), metropolitan of Odessa, the New Martyr, February 10; Hieromartyr Theodosius priest, January 11; Zosimas, Nicholas, Basil, John, Leontius, Vladimir, Parthenius, John, John, Michael priests hieromartyrs, and Martyrs Paul, Anna, Vera and Irina, February 13; Tryphon the deacon, New Hieromartyr, February 14; Nicholas, Alexis, Alexis the priests and Simeon the deacon, New Hieromartyrs, Paul and Sophia the martyrs, February 15; Paul the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 16; Michael and Paul the priests and New Hieromartyrs, February 17; Benjamin the hieromonk, Hieromartyr, February 18; Nicholas the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 20; Constantine priest, Paul deacon the Hieromartyrs and Olga the Martyr, February 21; Michael, John, Victor, John, Sergius, Andrew priests, Sergius and Antipa the New Hieromartyrs, Parasceva, Stephen, Elizabeth, Irina and Barbara the martyrs, February 22; Alexis, Nicholas priests and New Hieromartyrs, and Sergius Martyr, February 23; Alexander, the priest, Mstislava, the martyrs, February 25; John, bishop of Rylsk and John the priest, New Hieromartyrs, February 26; Peter the priest and Hieromartyr, Martyr Michael, February 27; Basil, Peter, John, Benjamin, Michael priests and New Hieromartyrs, Anthony, Anna, Daria, Eudokia, Alexandra, Basil, Nadezhda the martyrs, March 1; Martha and Michael the martyrs, March 3; Alexander the priest, New Hieromartyr, March 4; John the priest, Mardarius and Theopanethe New Hieromartyrs, March 5; Nilus, Matrona, Mary, Eudocia, Ecaterina, Antonina, Nadezhda, Xenia, and Anna the martyrs, March 7; Michael, Alexis, Demetrius, Sergius, Sergius priests and Nicholas deacon, Iosaph, New Hieromartyrs and Natalia and Alexandra the martyrs, March 9; Demetrius, priest and New Hieromartyr, March 10; John the priest and Vladimir the New Hieromartyrs, March 12; Michael priest and New Hieromartyr, March 13; Demetrius, priest and New Hieromartyr, March 15; Demetrius the priest, New Hieromartyr, Natalia the Virgin-martyr, March 18; Matrona, saint, March 19; Basil the deacon, New Hieromartyr, March 20; Theodore Pozdeyev, Archbishop, New Martyr, March 21; Basil, Stephen priests, the New Hieromartyr, Anastasia, Alexis, James, the New Martyrs, March 23; Basil, priest and New Hieromartyr, March 28; John, priest New Hieromartyr, March 31; Sergius the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 1; Flegont the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 10; Nicholas the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 11; Sergius the New Hieromartyr, priest, April 12; Alexis, priest and New Hieromartyr, April 21; Sergius the Martyr, April 24, Sergius the Martyr, April 25; Mary the martyr, April 27; Anna the martyr, April 28; Nina the martyr, May 1; Silouan the Athonite, Venerable monk at the Monastery of St. Panteleimon, September 24; Hieromartyrs Demetrius and Theodore priests December 22; Hieromartyr Nicetas bishop of Belevsk, December 21; Hieromartyrs Basil priest, Macarius and John, December 23; Venerable Isaac of Optina, Hieromartyrs Gregory priest and martyrs Augusta and Mary, Agrippina, December 26; Hieromartyr Aretha priest, December 28; Peter, Martyr, December 31;
1939+
- 1939 Nicholas the priest, Hieromartyr, January 4; Basil, priest, Hieromartyr, January 7; Eugene the Schemamonk of Bielorussia, February 5; Parasceva, Martyr, March 26; John the Martyr, March 28; Eudocia the Martyr, April 7;
- 1940 John, Martyr January 7; Theodore the Martyr, January 19; Paul the priest, New Hieromartyr, January 20; Michael, New Hieromartyr and priest, March 15; John, priest, New Hieromartyr, April 23; Leontius the deacon, Hieromartyr, December 21;
- 1941 Paul priest, Hieromartyr, January 4; Michael the confessor, priest, January 8; Andrew the Martyr, February 22; Sophia Schema-abbess in Kiev, New Martyr, March 22, Martha the martyr, April 13; Alexander the confessor, priest, April 14; Sava of Gornji Karlovac, Serbia, [[]]; Branko of Veljusa, Serbia, hieromartyr, April 24; John, priest and New Hieromartyr, April 27; Gorazd (Pavlik) of Prague, martyred by Nazis; Platon of Banja Luka, May 5; Petar (Zimonjić) of Dabar-Bosna, Dositheus, Metropolitan of Zagreb, Confessor, December 31;
- 1941-45 Croatian Ustasa terrorists kill 500,000 Orthodox Serbs, expel 250,000 and force 250,000 to convert to Catholicism; Paramon, Righteous of Belorussia, February 5
- 1942 John, Saint January 6; Michael, priest, Hieromartyr, January 15; Alexandra and Michael the martyrs, February 5; Alexis the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 7, Alexander the priest, New Hieromartyr, February 8; Philaret the New Hieromartyr, February 22; Alexander, priest and New Hieromartyr, March 1; Vladimir the Martyr, March 8; Victor the priest and New Hieromartyr, March 17; Gabriel the New Martyr, April 9; Demetrius the Martyr, April 10; Theodore, priest, New Hieromartyr, April 17; Tamara the martyr, April 18; Demetrius the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 19; Demetrius the Martyr, April 22; Joanikije (Lipovac) of Montenegro, July 20; Hieromartyr Sergius priest December 24.
- 1943 Paul the priest, New Hieromartyr, January 9; Sergius the priest and New Hieromartyr, March 12; John the Martyr, April 4; James the priest, New Hieromartyr, April 6; Sergius Zacharczuk Priest of Nabroz (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland), New Hieromartyr, April 23
- 1943-44 Hundreds of Orthodox priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church eliminated, tortured and drowned by Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - Ukrainian Rebel Army, aided by Uniate Metr. Josyf Slipyj who was a spiritual leader of Nazi military units that were later condemned by the Nuremberg tribunal, and who was imprisoned by Soviet authorities for aiding the UPA.
- 1944 Ekvtime (Kereselidze) the Confessor, of Georgia, January 20; Demetrius Klepinine, priest in Paris, died at Ravensbruck prison camp, Germany, hieromartyr, January 27; Leo Korobczuk, priest in Laskov (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland), New Hieromartyr, February 25; Nicholas Holz, Priest in Novosiolki (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland), New Hieromartyr, March 20; Peter Ochryzko, Priest in Chartoviec (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland), New Hieromartyr, March 28; Macarius the schema-bishop of ‘’St. Macarius the Roman’’ Monastery, near Lezna, New Hieromartyr, April 1
- 1945-90 Persecution of the Orthodox Church in Albania.
- 1945 Mary, Virgin-martyr, January 12; Stephen the Martyr, January 30; Maria Skobtsova, venerable nun, who suffered at Ravensbruck, in northern Germany, March 18; Basil Martysz, Protopresbyter in Teratyn (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland), New Hieromartyr, April 21; Arseny (Chagovtsov) of Winnipeg, October 4;
- 1947 Alexei Kabalyiuk.
- 1948 Sergius Serebriansky, archbishop and confessor, March 23; Savvas the New of Kalymnos, April 7;
- 1949 Seraphim of Viritsa, March 21.
- 1950 Death of Venerable Laurence of Chernigov, January 11.
- 1952 Matrona the Blind of Moscow, born in 1885, April 19;
- 1953 Euthymius (Taqaishvili) the Man of God of Tbilisi, January 3.
- 1956 Nikolai Velimirovic, March 18.
- 1957 John (Maisuradze) of Georgia, January 21
- 1959 Elder Joseph the Hesychast (1898-1959); Elder George (Karslidis) of Drama (1901-1959), November 4
- 1960 Symeon of the Pskov Caves, Venerable, January 5; George-John (Mkheidze) of Georgia, January 21; Anthimos of Chios February 15; John (Iacob) the Romanian (the Hozevite) August 5
- 1961 John the confessor, venerable, January 14
- 1964 Varnava Nastic, November 12; Elder Gervasius of Patras (1877-1964)
- 1966 Sebastian, Elder of Optina and Karaganda, April 6; John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Fransisco, July 2.
- 1970 Elder Amphilochios (Makris) of Patmos (+1970); Archpriest Stefan Wu Zhiquan .[1], the new martyr.; Amphilochius of Pochaev, Venerable, April 29;
- 1972 Leonty (Stasevich) of Ivanovo, Venerable, January 27; Leontius of Tarnopol and Jablechna (Poland), New Hieromartyr, January 27;
- 1975 Papa-Dimitris (Gagastathis); Elder Demetrius of Trikala (1902-1975)
- 1979 matushka Olga Michael, November 8; Justin Popovich, March 25; Archimandrite Philoumenos, November 16;
- 1980 Elder Philotheos (Zervakos) of Paros (1884-1980).
- 1982 Seraphim Rose
- 1983 Elder Arsenios the cave-dweller of Mt. Athos.
- 1989 Hieromonk Kosmas of Zaire (1942-1989); Elder Epiphanius of Athens (+1989)
- 1991 Elder Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) the Kapsokalivite; (Evangelos (Bairaktaris)), February 7; Elder Iacovos (Tsalikis) of Euboea (1920-1991)
- 1992 Gabrielia (Papayannis) and Chrysanthi of Andros.
- 1993 New Martyrs of Optina Pustyn; Canonization of Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna.
- 1994 Elder Paisios (Eznepidis) of Mt. Athos, July 12.
- 1995 Eldress Macrina of Volos (1921-1995); Gerasimos (Papadopoulos) of Abydos, June 12.
- 1998 Elder Ephraim of Katounakia.
- 2000 Fr. Grigory Zhu, September; Blessed Stavritsa the Missionary (1916-2000)