Presbyter
Saint Peter was born on January 6, 1867, in the village of Svityno, Podolsk district of Moscow province. In 1882, he graduated from the Perervinsk Spiritual School, and in 1888 — from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary. From 1900, he served as a psalmist in the church of Saint Nicholas in Plotniki, and from September 26, 1903, he was the rector of the Assumption Church in the village of Kishkino. From 1903 to 1919, he was the legal advisor of the Kishkino district zemstvo school. In 1908, he built a new stone church, consecrated in 1912.
In 1920, he was awarded the pectoral cross and elevated to the rank of protodeacon. In 1936, after the arrest of priest Peter Kedrov, he began to care for two parishes. On March 2, 1938, he was arrested and imprisoned in Kashira prison. During the interrogation, he stated that he did not recognize himself guilty of anti-Soviet agitation.
On March 9, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Protodeacon Peter Lyubimov was shot on March 14, 1938, and buried in a common unmarked grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
