Presbyter
Saint Gregory was born on December 12, 1877, in the family of a singer of the Imperial Court Choir in St. Petersburg. He received his initial education at the Alexander Nevsky Spiritual School, and then at the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary, which he graduated from in 1900. On June 11, 1900, he was ordained a deacon at the Marine Epiphany Church. He participated in services and was a legal teacher in schools. In 1913, he began serving as a deacon in the newly consecrated cathedral in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker.
The prayer house of the Society of Sobriety, where he actively participated, attracted up to a thousand people. In 1908, he was appointed assistant to the head of the Holy Trinity Society of Sobriety, and in 1917, he became its leader. On October 15, 1917, he was ordained a priest at the Epiphany Cathedral and soon elevated to the rank of protopresbyter.
In March 1921, during the uprising of the sailors of Kronstadt, he was invited to serve for the killed. After the suppression of the uprising, he was arrested. During the interrogation, he refused the accusations of agitation against the Soviet power. The documents found during the search, allegedly mocking the leaders, he denied.
The Extraordinary Revolutionary Troika sentenced him to execution. Protopresbyter Gregory Pospelov was shot in the Kronstadt naval investigative prison, firmly holding a cross in his hands, not surrendering it either at the commands or at the blows of the soldiers.
