Presbyter
Father Konstantin Kolpetsky was born on May 15, 1885, in the village of Frolovskoye, Kashinsky District, Tver Province, into the family of priest Alexei Kolpetsky. He studied at the Tver Theological Seminary and was ordained as a priest. In 1931, for non-payment of taxes, he was sentenced to six months in a correctional labor camp, and in 1935 he was arrested again for tax evasion and sentenced to one year in a correctional labor camp. After his return, he began serving in the church of the village of Sukromlya in the Novotorzhsky District of Tver Region. On August 5, 1937, he was arrested and placed in Tver prison. On August 9, a brief interrogation took place, during which he denied the accusations of anti-Soviet agitation. On September 20, the NKVD Troika sentenced him to death by shooting, which was carried out on September 23, 1937. He was canonized among the ranks of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Jubilee Archpastoral Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for public veneration.
