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The title of New Martyr or Neomartyr (Greek: νεο, neo, the prefix for "new"; and μάρτυς, martys, "witness") of the Eastern Orthodox Church was originally given to martyrs who died under heretical rulers (the original martyrs being under pagans). Later the Church added to the list those martyred under Islam and various modern regimes, especially Communist ones, which espoused state atheism. Officially, the era of the New Martyrs begins with the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Among those commemorated are not only those who gave their lives in martyrdom, but also those who are accounted as confessors for the Orthodox Faith.

New Martyrs under Ottoman rule

See also: Greeks in Turkey, Greek genocide, Istanbul Pogrom, Varlık Vergisi, Massacres during the Greek Revolution, and Population exchange between Greece and Turkey

In the Orthodox Church, the third Sunday after Pentecost is known as the "Commemoration of All New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke."^{[citation needed]}

• Ahmed the Deftedar
• Akylina of Chalkidike
• Anthimos the Georgian
• Athanasios the Neomartyr
• Boris the Pomak
• Chrestos the Albanian
• Chrysostomos of Smyrna
• Constantin Brâncoveanu
• Constantine Hagarit
• Cosmas of Aetolia
• Cyril VI of Constantinople, ethnomartyr
• Demetrios Doukas
• Demetrios of Philadelphia
• Demetrios the Neomartyr
• Gabriel I of Pec
• George of Ioannina
• George the New
• Hasan
• John Calphas ("the Apprentice")
• John of Ioannina, a.k.a. John the Tailor
• John the New of Suceava
• Makarios the Monk
• Michael Mavroudis
• Paisius and Habakkuk
• Panteleimon Dousa
• Patriarch Gabriel II of Constantinople
• Gregory V of Constantinople
• Paul of Constantinople, April 6/19, 1683
• Paul the Russian
• Philothei
• Theocharis of Nevsehir (Neapoli)
• Teodor of Vršac
• Theodore of Komogovina
• Thomas Paschidis
• Zlata of Meglen

New Martyrs under Communist rule

See also: Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union, Religion in the Soviet Union, Society of the Godless, and State atheism

In the Russian Orthodox Church, the Sunday closest to January 25 (February 7 on the Gregorian Calendar) is the "Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia." The date of January 25 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 "Protomartyr of the communist yoke in Russia."

• Alexander Hotovitzky
• Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
• Anastasia Hendrikova
• Andronic Nikolsky
• Bishop Arcadius, 1938
• Bishop Arkady Ostalsky,
• Bishop Arseny Jadanovsky, who was the last abbot of the Chudov Monastery which was also destroyed
• Nun Barbara
• Bishop Basil of Kineshma, July 29/August 11, 1945.
• Catherine Schneider
• Archbishop Dimitry Dobroserdov,
• Bishop Dimitry of Gdov
• Elizabeth Feodorovna
• Dr. Eugene Botkin (see Romanov sainthood)
• Bishop Hermogenes
• Metropolitan Benjamin of Petrograd
• John Kochurov
• John of Tsarskoye Selo
• Archpriest John Vostorgov
• Metropolitan Joseph, 1938
• Archimandrite Kronid Lubimov
• Lydia
• Archpriest Makary Kvitkin
• Margarete of Menzelinsk
• Maria of Gatchina, c. 1930
• Bishop Maxim of Serpukhov June 23/July 6, 1931
• Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia
• Mykola Leontovych
• Archbishop Nikolay Dobronravov,
• Nicholas II of Russia with his immediate family and servants (see Romanov sainthood)
• Fr. Nicholas Zagorovsky, 1943 (confessor)
• Bishop Nikita Dilektorsky,
• Nikodim of Solovki
• Father Pavel Florensky
• Metropolitan Seraphim Chichagov of St. Petersburg
• Father Peter of Krutitsy
• Metropolitan Seraphim Chichagov, 1937
• Patriarch Tikhon, 1925 (confessor)
• Sister Varvara Yakovleva
• Veniamin Kazanskii
• Vladimir N. Beneshevich
• Metropolitan Vladimir First victim of the Soviet.

New Martyrs under Nazism rule

• Alexander Schmorell, member of the White Rose resistance group

Serbian New Martyrs

The feast of "All New Martyrs of Serbia" is celebrated on June 28 [O.S. June 15].

• Saint Prince Lazar
• Gorazd Pavlik
• Platon Jovanović
• Sava Trlajić
• Petar Zimonjić
• Vukašin Mandrapa
• Rafailo of Šišatovac
• Đorđe Bogić
• Joanikije Lipovac

New Martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion

June 24 [O.S. June 11] is celebrated as the feast of the "New Martyrs of China Slain During the Boxer Rebellion"

• Ia the Teacher
• Holy Martyrs of China

Other New Martyrs

Of Ecumenism

• Hieromartyr Maximus Sandovic[1] , August 24/September 6, 1914

See also

• Hieromartyr
• Martyr
• Mass graves in the Soviet Union
• Felix Dzerzhinsky

Sources

• Derived with permission from New Martyrs at OrthodoxWiki.
• Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity, 341-43
• Vaporis, Rev. Nomikos Michael. Witnesses for Christ: Orthodox Christian Neomartyrs of the Ottoman Period 1437-1860

External links

• Calendar of Orthodox Church England contains NeoMartyrs
• Christian Greek orthodox Neomartyrs: A Case Study
• Russian New Martyrs and Confessors
• Neo-Martyrs of the Soviet regime
• Pravoslavie's Article on Neo-Martyr
• The shrine to the Great Purge