Presbyter
Saint Constantine Lebedev was born in 1884. He studied at the Perm Theological Seminary and was ordained as a deacon in 1909, and as a priest in 1912. He served in the Prokhor-Ilyinsky Church of the Ust-Utkinskaya pier of the Verkhotursky district, and then in the Spasskaya Church of the village of Uetskoye in the Kamyshlovsky district. During the revolution, he remained at his parish despite the Red Terror. On July 8/21, 1918, after the liturgy, he was arrested by Red Army soldiers and imprisoned in a guardhouse. On the night of July 9/22, he was subjected to torture and killed. His body was covered with straw and manure. By the decision of the Holy Synod on July 17, 2002, he was glorified in the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
