Benjamin of Vladimir

Holy Hieromartyr Benjamin of Vladimir (Benjamin Xenophontovich Vladimirsky) was a deacon in the Nizhny Novgorod region and was shot on 20 November 1937.

He was born on 10 October 1892 in the village of Negonovo in the Makaryev district, Nizhny Novgorod province, in the family of a deacon. After the theological school he served as a psalm-⁠reader. In the 1920s he was ordained deacon and served at the church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Prosek, Makaryev district (today the Lyskovo district).

He was arrested on 15 September 1937 and held in prison at Gorky. He was accused of belonging to a "church-⁠fascist, diversionary and terrorist" organization, of "counter-⁠revolutionary work among the anti-⁠Soviet part of the teachers" and of drawing teachers into subversive activity. The deacon did not admit guilt. The troika of the Gorky regional NKVD sentenced him to death on 11 November, and he was shot on 20 November 1937 and buried in an unknown common grave at the Bugrovsky cemetery in Nizhny Novgorod.

He was glorified by the Jubilee Council of Bishops in 2000. He is commemorated on 20 November and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 12 September (movable) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod.