Hieromartyr Metrophanes Of Mikhailov

Hieromartyr Metrophanes (Zagorsky) was consecrated Bishop of Murom on July 15/28, 1912, where he remained until January, 1919, when he was transferred to the see of Mikhailov, a vicariate of the Ryazan diocese. In February, 1919 he was shot at the age of 75.

(Sources: M.E. Gubonin, Akty Svyateishago Patriarkha Tikhona, Moscow: St. Tikhon's Theological Institute, 1994, p. 980; L. Regelson, Tragediya Russkoj Tserkvi, 1917-1945, Paris: YMCA Press, 1977, p. 524; Ikh Stradaniyami Ochistitsa Rus', Moscow, 1996, p. 56)