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→1939+: clean ups --- START with JANUARY and end with DEC.
===1939+===
*1939 Nicholas the priest, Hieromartyr, [[January 4]]; Basil, priest, Hieromartyr, [[January 7]]; Eugene the Schemamonk of Bielorussia, [[February 5]]
*1940 Death of Hieromartyr Leontius deacon, [[December 21]]; John, Martyr [[January 7]]; Theodore the Martyr, [[January 19]]; Paul the priest, New Hieromartyr, [[January 20]]; Hieromartyr Leontius deacon, [[December 21]];*1941 Martyrdom of Paul priest, Hieromartyr, [[January 4]]; Michael the confessor, priest, [[January 8]]; Andrew the Martyr, [[February 22]]; [[Gorazd (Pavlik) of Prague]] , martyred by Nazis; [[Platon of Banja Luka]], [[May 5]]; [[Petar (Zimonjić) of Dabar-Bosna]], [[Dositheus of Zagreb| Dositheus]], Metropolitan of Zagreb, Confessor, [[December 31]]; Paul priest, Hieromartyr, [[January 4]]; Michael the confessor, priest, [[January 8]]; Andrew the Martyr, [[February 22]]
*1941-45 Croatian [[w:Ustaše|Ustasa]] terrorists kill 500,000 Orthodox Serbs, expel 250,000 and force 250,000 to convert to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]]; Paramon, Righteous of Belorussia, [[February 5]]
*1942 [[Joanikije (Lipovac) of Montenegro]], [[July 20]]; Hieromartyr Sergius priest [[December 24]]; John, Saint [[January 6]]; Michael, priest, Hieromartyr, [[January 15]]; Alexandra and Michael the martyrs, [[February 5]]; Alexis the priest, New Hieromartyr, [[February 7]], Alexander the priest, New Hieromartyr, [[February 8]]; Philaret the New Hieromartyr, [[February 22]]; [[Joanikije (Lipovac) of Montenegro]], [[July 20]]; Hieromartyr Sergius priest [[December 24]].
*1943 Paul the priest, New Hieromartyr, [[January 9]]
*1943-44 Hundreds of Orthodox priests of the [[Church of Ukraine|Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] eliminated, tortured and drowned by Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - [[w:Ukrainian Insurgent Army|Ukrainian Rebel Army]], aided by [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Uniate]] Metr. Josyf Slipyj who was a spiritual leader of Nazi military units that were later condemned by the Nuremberg tribunal, and who was imprisoned by Soviet authorities for aiding the UPA.
*1944 [[Ekvtime the Confessor|Ekvtime]] (Kereselidze) the Confessor, of Georgia, [[January 20]]; [[Demetrius Klepinine]], priest of Paris, [[January 27]]; Leo Korobczuk, priest in Laskov (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland), New Hieromartyr, [[February 25]];
*1945-90 Persecution of the [[Church of Albania|Orthodox Church in Albania]].
*1945 [[Arseny (Chagovtsov) of Winnipeg]], [[October 4]]; Virgin-martyr Mary, [[January 12]]; Stephen the Martyr, [[January 30]]; [[Arseny (Chagovtsov) of Winnipeg]], [[October 4]]
*1947 [[Alexis (Kabaliuk) of Carpathia|Alexei Kabalyiuk]].
*1948 [[Savvas the New of Kalymnos]].
*1949 [[Seraphim of Viritsa]], [[March 21]].
*1950 Death of Venerable Laurence of Chernigov, [[January 11]];.*1953 [[Euthymius of Tbilisi| Euthymius]] (Taqaishvili) the Man of God of Tbilisi, [[January 3]].
*1956 [[Nikolai Velimirovic]], [[March 18]].
*1957 John (Maisuradze) of Georgia, [[January 21]] *1959 Elder [[Joseph the Hesychast]] (1898-1959); Elder [[George (Karslidis) of Drama]] (1901-1959), [[November 4]]; Elder [[Joseph the Hesychast]] (1898-1959) *1960 [[Anthimos Symeon of ChiosPskov| Symeon]] [[February 15]]; John (Iacob) of the Romanian (the Hozevite)Pskov Caves, Venerable,[[August January 5]]; George-John (Mkheidze) of [[Georgia]], [[January 21]]; [[Symeon Anthimos of Pskov| SymeonChios]] [[February 15]] of ; John (Iacob) the Romanian (the Pskov Caves, Venerable, Hozevite) [[January August 5]];*1961 John the confessor, venerable, [[January 14]];
*1964 [[Varnava Nastic]], [[November 12]]; Elder [[Gervasius of Patras]] (1877-1964)
*1966 [[John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker]], Archbishop of Shanghai and San Fransisco, [[July 2]].
