Presbyter
Saint Gregory Iosifovich Troitsky was born on October 1, 1870, in the village of Gromok, Tambov province. After graduating from the Stavropol Theological Seminary, he became a psalmist at the Church of the Introduction of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the stanitsa of Pashkovskaya on July 22, 1892. He served as a teacher in the church school, was ordained a deacon on August 20, 1895, and a priest on July 22, 1896. He held the positions of head and law teacher of church schools, and from 1897 he was a missionary against sectarians and Buddhists. From August 28, 1903, he served as a priest of the Michael Archangel Church, and from April 19, 1904, he was transferred back to the Trinity Church in the stanitsa of Dolzhanskaya. In 1911-1913, he was a deputy from the white clergy. On May 30, 1913, he was transferred to the Ascension Church in the stanitsa of Pashkovskaya, where he served as the head of the church school and law teacher of the schools. He was awarded a medal from the Red Cross for participating in the activities of the Russian Red Cross Society during the Russo-Japanese War.
Since January 1921, he performed the duties of a member of the board of the diocesan candle factory. On September 15, he was arrested on charges of correspondence with repressed clergymen. On September 23, he was sentenced to execution as an 'enemy of the working people.' He was executed on September 28, 1921. The name of Saint Gregory was included in the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia on December 26, 2003.
