Presbyter
Saint Vladimir Konstantinovich Lozina-Lozinsky, priest-martyr, was born on May 26, 1885, in the town of Dukhovshchina, Smolensk province. His parents were narodniks. In 1888, his mother contracted typhus and died. His father, widowed, returned to Saint Petersburg and obtained a position as a doctor. Vladimir grew up as a sickly and kind child, graduated from gymnasium, and enrolled in the law faculty. In 1910, he entered the service of the Governing Senate and studied archival affairs. During World War I, he directed the transportation of the wounded. In 1917, after the closure of the Senate, he took a job on the railway. His desire to become a priest matured after the catastrophe of 1917 and the suicide of his brother. In 1920, he was admitted to the courses of the Theological Institute and submitted a request for ordination.
After his ordination, he served in the university church of All Saints, and in 1923 became the rector. He was repeatedly subjected to arrest: in 1924 for the case of the “Spasskoye Brotherhood,” and in 1925 he was sentenced to ten years in camps. In Solovki, he showed kindness and humility. In 1928, his sentence was commuted to five years of exile in Siberia. In the village of Pyanovo, he was in exile with Bishop Vasily. After his release, from 1934 he served in Novgorod, becoming the rector of the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsky Cathedral. In 1936, he was arrested again, and on December 13 (26), 1937, he was shot. The place of his burial remains secret.
He was canonized among the ranks of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in August 2000 for church-wide veneration.
