Alexander Serebrov

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Serebrov (1868 to 1937) was an archpriest, 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. He was numbered among the saints, the new martyrs and confessors of Russia of the twentieth century, by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

Alexander Alexandrovich Serebrov was born in 1868 in the village of Klyuchishchi, Buguruslan district, Samara province. He finished the seminary and from 1889 served in the priestly rank. He lived at Ulyanovsk. On 24 June 1937 Father Alexander was exiled for five years to Kazakhstan, where he worked as a labourer at the Maisky mine in the Beskargai district, Pavlodar region. On 25 November 1937 he was arrested together with other clergy exiled to the Maisky mine (Archimandrite Gregory Rebez, Archimandrite Benjamin Zykov, Archpriest John Malinovsky, Archpriest Constantine Mikhailovsky, the priests Alexander Mishutin, Ignatius Teslin, Simeon Krivosheev, John Piramidin, John Florovsky, Nicholas Amasiysky and Valentine Kornienko) and accused of counter-⁠revolutionary agitation. On 1 December of that year all those arrested, except the priest Nicholas Amasiysky, were sentenced, and the next day shot.