Presbyter
Aleksey Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was born on March 22, 1865, in the village of Vvedenskoe, Tarussky district, Kaluga province. He came from a family of a priest and received his education at the Vifanskaya Theological Seminary. In 1890, he was ordained as a deacon, and on June 20 of the same year, as a priest. He served in the Vvedenskaya Church of his native village and was a legal educator at the Levshinskaya Zemskaya School. In 1892, he was transferred to the church of the Pesochnoe Factory, where he was the guardian of the church-parish schools. In 1897, he was transferred to Kaluga, to the church of St. Alexius, where he served until 1900, without ceasing his teaching activities. In 1900, he was transferred to the Kaluga Church of St. George behind the Lavras, where he served until 1923. On May 19, 1909, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter. His activities were diverse: he was a legal educator at the IV Kaluga Women's Parish School, a deputy of the Kaluga Diocese, and a member of the Board of the Kaluga Theological Seminary. He served in many churches, including in the village of Olkhi, where the church burned down. In 1927, he moved to Moscow, serving in various churches, including the Church of the Rzhev Mother of God and the Church of the Nativity of Christ. On September 17, 1937, he was arrested by the NKVD on charges of 'conducting counter-revolutionary agitation.' He died on December 26, 1937, in the strict regime camp 'Tayshet.'
