Vincent of Vologda

Holy Venerable Vincent of Vologda is mentioned in only one source: the calendar of saints of the monastery of Koryazhma, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, under 19 March.

The Koryazhma monastery, founded in 1535 by Venerable Longinus and Simon, belonged in the nineteenth century to the diocese of Vologda, and so the historian N. P. Barsukov counted Vincent among the saints of Vologda. Since no other source mentions him, Archbishop Dimitry (Sambikin) supposed that he might be the same person as Venerable Innocent of Komel (died 1521), commemorated also on 19 March but not entered in the Koryazhma calendar. The view seems worth considering, because that calendar contains many copying errors. Bishop, later Metropolitan, Eugene Bolkhovitinov did not include him in his list of the saints of Vologda of 1811. The name was entered in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda, established in 1841 with the blessing of Bishop Innocent (Borisov).

Nothing is known from these sources of his life. He is commemorated on 19 March.