New Hieromartyr Nicholas Sushchevsky

Nicholas Sushchevsky was an Orthodox priest of the Russian Church who was killed during the Soviet persecution of religion and is venerated as a New Hieromartyr. He is commemorated on September 3 and is numbered among the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, the great body of clergy, monastics, and laity who suffered for the faith after the October Revolution of 1917.

According to Russian church records, Nicholas served as a protopriest at the church in the village of Georgievka, in the Pishpek district of the Semirechye region, in what is now Central Asia. In 1923, during the campaign against the Church carried out by the Soviet authorities, he was shot near the town of Taldy. His death falls in the early wave of the persecution, the same period that claimed many parish priests across the former Russian Empire.

By tradition he is remembered together with two other clergymen of the same region and time, the protopriest Vladimir Tsedrinsky and the priest George Stepanyuk, who shared in the same persecution. As with much of the New-Martyr tail, the surviving record of his life is brief, preserving chiefly his office, his place of ministry, and the manner and year of his death rather than a full biography.