Presbyter
Saint Demetrius was born in 1880 into the family of the priest John Plishevsky. After graduating from the Minsk Theological Seminary in 1905, he was ordained to the priesthood and served at the Church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Smolevichi.
During the persecutions of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was arrested on September 26, 1937, on charges related to reading and promoting the Lives of the Saints. During the interrogations, he denied all accusations, claiming that he had never participated in any counter-revolutionary organization and had not taken part in counter-revolutionary activities.
On November 19, 1937, he was sentenced to death by the NKVD troika. Father Demetrius Plishevsky was executed on January 19, 1938. He was buried in an unmarked common grave.
