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→Nineteenth century (1901-2000): 1796, 1864, 1909, 1915, 1917, 1937, 1945, 1956, 1964, 1966, 1979, 1982, 1995
*1879 Death of [[Innocent of Alaska]].
*1891 Death of [[Ambrose of Optina]].
*1796 Martyrdom of hieromartyr [[Juvenaly of Alaska]], protomartyr of America, [[July 2]].
*1837 Death of [[Herman of Alaska]], [[December 13]].
*1864 Death of [[Jacob Netsvetov]], [[July 26]].
*1879 Death of [[Innocent of Alaska]], [[Equal-to-the-Apostles]], [[March 31]].
==Nineteenth century (1901-2000)==
*1900 [[Martyrs of China|Martyrdom of Orthodox Christians]] in Chinese Boxer Rebellion (Yihetuan Movement).
*1905 Death of [[Apostolos Makrakis]].
*1908 Death of [[John of Kronstadt]]. *1909 Death of [[Alexis of Wilkes-Barre]], [[May 7]].
*1912 Death of [[Nicholas of Japan]].
*1915 Death of [[Raphael of Brooklyn]].*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.
*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]].
*1925 Death of [[Tikhon of Moscow]]; St. [[Jonah of Manchuria]], Bishop of Hankou (1922-1925).
*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.
*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]].
*1943-44 Hundreds of Orthodox priests of the [[Church of Ukraine|Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] eliminated, tortured and drowned by Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - [[w:Ukrainian Insurgent Army|Ukrainian Rebel Army]], aided by [[Eastern Catholic Churches|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.
*1945-90 Persecution of the [[Church of Albania|Orthodox Church in Albania]]. *1945 Death of [[Arseny (Chagovtsov) of Winnipeg]], [[October 4]].
*1947 Death of [[Alexis (Kabaliuk) of Carpathia|Alexei Kabalyiuk]].
*1956 Death of [[Nikolai Velimirovic]], [[March 18]].
*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]].
*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]].
*1993 Canonization of [[Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna]].
*1994 Death of Elder [[Paisios (Eznepidis)]] of Mt. [[Athos]], [[July 12]].
*1995 Death of Eldress [[Macrina of Volos]]; [[Gerasimos (Papadopoulos) of Abydos]], [[June 12]].
*1998 Death of Elder [[Ephraim of Katounakia]].
*2000 Death of Fr. [[Grigory Zhu]], September.