Martyr Sergius was born on September 4, 1898, in the village of Pogost Desyataya Pyatnitsa in the Moscow province. He was son of the priest Vasily Arkhangelsky. After graduating from the Perervinsk Spiritual School in 1915, he entered the Moscow Theological School, but did not finish it due to the closure of all educational institutions by the Bolsheviks. In 1919, he participated to the Red Army, while in 1922 he became a chanter in the cathedral church of the city of Vereya. Later, he served in the Pokrov Church of the village of Kupelitsy, as well as in other churches of the Pavlov Posad district.
In 1937, after the arrest of the chanter of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, in the village of Saurovo-Upolzy, Saint Sergius was asked to take his place. However, he was soon arrested on November 27, 1937, and imprisoned in Noginsk. During interrogations, he denied all accusations of anti-Soviet propaganda and counter-revolutionary activities, asserting that he had never engaged in such actions. On December 3, 1937, the NKVD sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp.
Saint Sergius Arkhangelsky died on May 7, 1938, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
