Presbyter
Priest Alexander Koshmych Fleginsky was born on February 19, 1861, into a priest's family. After graduating from the Stavropol Theological Seminary in 1883, he received a position as a psalmist at the Kazan Cathedral in the city of Stavropol. In the same year, he was ordained as a deacon, and then as a priest, and assigned to the clergy of the Church of Martyr Longinus. In 1885, he was transferred to the Krasnogorsk stanitsa, where he held the position of district missionary. In 1908, he was transferred to the Georgiev-Afipskaya stanitsa and appointed as the dean of the 17th district. In March 1918, he was captured and brutally killed by Red Army soldiers. The date of death is March 24. His body was found seven months later. On September 18, a funeral service was held for him at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Ekaterinodar. On May 4, 2017, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to include the name of Priest Alexander Fleginsky in the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, with a commemoration on April 6 (March 24).
