Alexis Vvedensky

Holy Hieromartyr Alexis Vvedensky, a priest, was born in 1871 and was hacked to death with an axe by the Bolsheviks on 23 June 1918, in the village of Katayskoe. The Russian Church honours him among the New Martyrs and Confessors.

His full name was Alexis Konstantinovich Vvedensky. In 1893 he finished the seminary at Perm and was ordained priest for the church of the Ascension in the village of Bagaryakskoe, in the Yekaterinburg district of the Perm province. On 15 July 1897 he was moved to the church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Katayskoe, in the Kamyshlov district. He was distinguished by zealous fulfilment of a pastor's duties, and on 6 October 1910 was appointed dean of the fifth district of the Kamyshlov district; on 2 August 1911 he left that office and devoted all his pastoral work to the Trinity parish. After the godless Bolsheviks came to power he was cruelly killed, hacked with an axe, on 23 June 1918. He is commemorated on 13 July and 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.