Presbyter
Saint Martyr Alexey was born on February 6, 1888, in the village of Antonkovo, Vyatka province. In 1900, after the death of his mother, he was taken into the care of his older brother Vasily. Alexey graduated from the zemstvo school and, with his father's permission, moved to Kazan, where he worked in a store. In 1905, he entered the Ioanno-Predtechensky Monastery, where he became a novice and was under the spiritual guidance of Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel.
In 1911, Alexey was drafted into military service, and after the October Revolution of 1917, he returned to Antonkovo. In 1920, he moved to Moscow and enrolled in pastoral theological courses. On June 26, 1921, he was ordained a priest, and a year later, he was transferred to the Preobrazhensky Church in the village of Selinskoe.
In May 1922, the Renovationist schism began, and Alexey refused to join the Renovationists, remaining faithful to Orthodoxy and His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon. On March 13, 1923, he was dismissed and banned from serving. In late September 1924, Alexey was arrested for organizing gatherings of believers and sentenced to two years in a concentration camp on Solovki.
After his release in 1927, he was prohibited from residing in large cities. He served in the church in the village of Bykovo, then in the Voskresensky Cathedral of Pavlovsky Posad, where in 1931 he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon. On March 27, 1935, the cathedral was handed over to the Renovationists, and Alexey was transferred to the Trinity Church.
On August 8, 1937, he was arrested by the NKVD and accused of anti-Soviet agitation. On August 19, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death. Priest Alexey Vorobyov was shot on August 20, 1937, at the Butovo firing range and buried in a nameless common grave.
