Presbyter
Alexander Lavrentevich Mishutin was born in 1885 in the city of Ryazhsk, Ryazan province. He graduated from the Ryazan Teacher's Seminary and from 1916 served in the priesthood, residing in Moscow.
On February 19, 1935, his father was exiled for 5 years to Kazakhstan, where he lived for more than two years at the May mining site in the Beskaragai district of the Pavlodar region. On November 25, 1937, he was arrested along with other clergymen who had been exiled to the May mining site.
Father Alexander was accused of counter-revolutionary agitation and sentenced to death. On December 2, 1937, the sentence was carried out. In the ranks of the saints, the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 20th century, Priest Alexander Mishutin was glorified by the Archdiocesan Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
