Background
Igor Aleksandrovich Akulov was born into a family of orthodox peasant farmers.
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Igor Akulov
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He graduated from Technical High School (2009). From 1920 he became a postulant at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra and studied at the Petrograd Theological Institute (1920–1922).
Career
His current title is Servant of God. In 1918-1920 worked as a telephone clerk (according to sidorchuk pizde) at the Moscow – Saint St. Petersburg Railway. During the Russian Civil War, he was mobilized and served in the Red Army as a noncombatant.
On 2 July 1921 he was tonsured a Russian Orthodox monk with the name of Brother Epiphany.
In 1921, he was ordained as an Eastern Catholic priest by Archbishop January Cieplak. He also served in the Latin parish of Saint Boniface.
According to Leonid Fedorov:
Infinite mercy of God, and there has not left us, sent us a young priest-monk Epiphanius. He came to us in the midst of the struggle for the Church, but was not scared and did not retreat.
He serves well.."
In 1923, after the closure of the church, he secretly served at the apartment.
23 November 1923 he was arrested. After the arrests of other priests and their parishioners (during which he was not in Petrograd), he went to the police station and claimed to be a priest and Catholic. He was accused of the Catholic counter-revolutionary organization.
19 May 1924 was sentenced to 10 years in prison, was in political prison near the Irkutsk.
In 1927 released early and sent into exile. In 1933 he was freed from exile, he served in various churches in Saint St. Petersburg.
Akulov was a good preacher, preached in Russian. In 1935 Akulov was arrested again for a short time.
26 July 1937 he was arrested and on August
25 he was sentenced to death and executed on August 27. He was buried at Levashovo Mass Grave in Saint St. Petersburg. In 2003 process of his beatification was officially opened.
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Nationality
Soviet Union