Alexander Mishutin

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Mishutin (1885 to 1937) was a priest in Moscow, exiled to Kazakhstan, and was shot on 2 December 1937. He is commemorated on 2 December and on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church. He was numbered among the saints by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

Alexander Lavrentievich Mishutin was born in 1885 in the town of Ryazhsk, in the Ryazan province. He finished the teachers' seminary at Ryazan; from 1916 he served as priest and lived in Moscow. On 19 February 1935 he was exiled for five years to Kazakhstan. For more than two years he lived at the Maisky mine, in the Beskargai district, Pavlodar region, then he was arrested on 25 November 1937, together with other clergy exiled to the Maisky mine: Archimandrite Gregory (Rebez), Archimandrite Benjamin (Zykov), Archpriest John Malinovsky, Archpriest Constantine Mikhailovsky, Archpriest Alexander Serebrov, the priests Ignatius Teslin, Simeon Krivosheev, John Piramidin, John Florovsky, Nicholas Amasiysky and Valentine Kornienko. He was accused of counter-⁠revolutionary agitation and condemned to death; the sentence was carried out on 2 December 1937.