Vladimir Vinogradov

Holy Hieromartyr Vladimir Vinogradov was a priest in the Yaroslavl region and was shot following the sentence of the Yaroslavl Cheka of 22 December 1919.

Vladimir Flegontovich Vinogradov was born on 24 October 1874 in the family of a psalm-⁠reader. He graduated from the Yaroslavl seminary in 1900 and was appointed psalm-⁠reader at the church in the village of Staroandreevskoe, Romanov-⁠Borisoglebsk district. In 1903 he was ordained priest for the church in the village of Kiovo, Lyubim district, and appointed teacher of religion at the parish school. In 1910 he was moved to the church in the village of Koza, in the same district, and a year later became teacher of religion at the primary school there.

In 1918 an uprising against the Bolsheviks broke out in Yaroslavl province. After it was put down, the priests of the churches in the districts caught up in the uprising were arrested, among them Father Vladimir. He was shot on the basis of the decision of the Yaroslavl Cheka of 22 December 1919. The Jubilee Council of Bishops in the year 2000 glorified him.

The saint is commemorated on 22 December and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 5 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl.