Peter (Pyahkel)

Born in 1875 in Estonia. Estonian by nationality.

In 1891 he graduated from the Riga Theological College, and in 1897 - the Riga Theological Seminary on the 1st level.

In March 1901 he was ordained to the rank of deacon, then to the rank of priest. The ordination was performed by Bishop Agafangel of Riga and Mitava (Preobrazhensky) .

From April 19, 1914 to November 10, 1916 he was the acting head of the Riga Spiritual Consistory.

In the years 1917-1920 he served as the second priest of the Assumption Cathedral in Azov in the dignity of Archpriest ^[1] , was dean in Azov .

After the option of living in Russia for about eight months, he returned to Estonia around the autumn of 1923. He worked as a Latin teacher in the city of Valka , served in a parish 34 kilometers from the city.

In 1924-1933 he was a teacher of Latin and the Law of God at the Valga High School.

In August 1933 he became a teacher at the Pechora Theological Seminary .

During World War II, he was mentioned as rector of the Church of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in Pechora as part of the Pskov spiritual mission .

On August 7, 1943, in the Transfiguration Cathedral in Tallinn, he was consecrated Metropolitan Alexander (Paulus) and the provisional Archbishop Nikolai (Leysman) as Bishop of Pechersk, as part of the Estonian Orthodox Church. Its diocese included the southwest of the commissariat general “Estonia”.

At the end of the war he lived in Pechora . He was arrested on June 27, 1945. Convicted by the military tribunal of the NKVD troops of the Pskov region on September 14 of the same year under Art. 58-1a of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for 10 years of camps .

He died on August 20, 1948 in custody ^[2] .

Rehabilitated October 31, 1996.

• Peter (Pyakhkel) // Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "Tree"
• Peter (Pyakhkel) on the site "Russian Orthodoxy"
• Letters of Archpriest Peter Pyahkel