Presbyter
Saint George was born in 1872 in the village of Yaropelets, Volokolamsk district of Moscow province. After graduating from the theological school, he entered the seminary and then began serving as a psalmist in the church. In 1908, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1917 – as a priest; he served until his arrest in the churches of the Naro-Fominsk district. In 1935, he served in the church of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in the village of Afineyevo, and shortly before his arrest, he was appointed the rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in the village of Rudnevo. A community of nuns from the closed Zosimova Hermitage gathered around the church, who assisted him in his service.
On September 4, 1937, Father George was arrested and imprisoned in the Naro-Fominsk prison, where he was brutally beaten. On October 9, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest George Arkhangelsky was shot on October 14, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
