Orthodox · † 1918
New Hieromartyr Priest Bessarion
Commemorated: May 1 (April 18, Old Style)
Life
Bessarion (Vissarion) Selinin was born in 1876 in a priest's family in the Vladimir province and from 1896 served as a psalm-reader in the diocese. Ordained deacon in 1902 and priest in 1906, he served in villages of the Pavlodar and Lepsinsk districts in Semirechye, and from 1916 was rector of the church of the Prophet Elijah in Urdzhar and dean of the district.
He was killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, on 1 May, according to the Church's calendar on 18 April, and is remembered among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
Places
- Place of birth: Iudino
- Place of death: Urzhar
- Place of burial: Urzhar
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