Vladimir Dmitrievsky

Saint Vladimir Dmitrievsky, hieromartyr, was a priest of the Russian Church, born in 1876 in the Novgorod governorate and dead in 1918 in the Semirechye region of Central Asia. He was numbered among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia by the Jubilee Council of Bishops in the year 2000.

He was born in the family of a psalm-⁠reader. He finished two classes at the Novgorod seminary. The source says that on 1 October 1884 he took a post as teacher at the school of the village of Kuvizino, Valdai district, but the date does not fit the year of his birth. On 25 March 1895 he was sent to the diocese of Turkestan as a psalm-⁠reader at the church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Kolpakovskoe, Lepsinsk district. On 4 October 1902 he was transferred as psalm-⁠reader to Pishpek. He was ordained deacon on 18 June 1903 by Bishop Paisius Vinogradov of Turkestan and Tashkent, and priest on 22 September 1903, and was assigned to the church of the Prophet Elijah in Arasan-⁠Kopal, Semirechye region. He also taught the Law of God at the girls' school in Kopal. In 1910 he was rector of the church of Saint Nicholas in the stanitsa of Kopalskaya. In 1914 he was rewarded with the priestly girdle, and in 1917 he acted as dean of the Kopal district.

In 1918 he was killed in a clash between a cross procession and a Bolshevik demonstration. He was buried in the common grave at the Kopal cemetery, and in 2003 a veneration cross was placed over the grave.

In 2000, by decision of the Jubilee Council of Bishops, on the proposal of the Alma-⁠Ata diocese, he was numbered in the Synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of Russia.