New Hieromartyrs Gregory Garyev & Alexander Ipatov

Gregory Garyaev, a priest, and Alexander Ipatov, a deacon, served together at the Spassky (Savior) Church in the town of Solikamsk, in the Perm province of Russia, and were put to death together by Red Army soldiers during the persecution of the Church that followed the Bolshevik revolution. They are numbered among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia and are commemorated on September 9 (September 22, new style).

According to Russian sources, Gregory was born on January 29, 1878, in the village of Pyanteg in the Cherdyn district of Perm province, the son of a priest, and graduated from the Perm Theological Seminary in 1900; by the early 1910s he is recorded as rector of the Spassky Church of Solikamsk. Alexander Ipatov was born about 1874 and was ordained deacon on September 17, 1906, by Bishop Nikanor (Nadezhdin) of Perm and Solikamsk; in 1908 he was assigned to the same Spassky Church, where he served alongside the priest Gregory.

The sources relate that on September 21, 1918, amid the mass repressions in the Perm province, the two clergymen were shot by Red Army soldiers after enduring cruel torture and abuse. Both were glorified in the rank of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.