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[[File:Lozina Lozinsky 1928.jpg|right|thumb|New Hieromartyr Vladimir Lozina-Lozinsky, Protopresbyter of St. Petersburg<ref name=ROCOR>The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.93.</ref> (†1937)220px]] New Hieromartyr Father '''Vladimir Konstantinovich Lozina-Lozinsky''' ({{ru icon}} Владимир Константинович Лозина-Лозинский) [[May 26]], 1885 - [[December 26]], 1937, was an [[Archpriest]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]who was [[martyr|martyred]] during the [[w:Great Purge|Great Purge]] in the Soviet Union. He was [[glorification|canonised ]] in 2000 as a [[Hieromartyr]].
His [[feast day ]] is on [[December 13]]/26,<ref name=ROCOR>The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.93.</ref><ref>[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?year=2011&today=26&month=12&trp=0&tzo=-4 December 26 / December 13]. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).</ref><ref name=DECR>{{ru icon}} [http://www.mospat.ru/calendar/?s=%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80+%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9 Лозина-Лозинский Владимир Лозина-Лозинский, прот., сщмч.: †1937; Д. 13 || Петерб]. Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). Retrieved: 2012-09-28.</ref> as well as on the [[Synaxis]] of [[New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia]], and on the [[Synaxis]] of the Saints of St. Petersburg.<ref name=DECR/>
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Father Vladimir was born on [[May 26]], 1885 in [[:w:Dukhovshchina|Dukhovshchina]], [[w:Smolensk OblastGovernorate|Smolensk Governorate]], to a family of doctors. His mother Varvara Karlovna (née Scheidemann), was the daughter of a Lieutenant-General who was a hero of the Crimean War, the artillery commander in the [[w:Battle of Eupatoria|Battle of Evpatoria]], descended from a [[w:RussificationHistory of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union|Russified]] wealthy German family. She was one of the first women in Russia who received a medical degree; she studied Female medicine and graduated from the St. Nicholas Military Hospital. His father, who was of Polish descent, was a doctor in the [[w:Kirov Plant|Putilov Plant]].
In 1888 his mother contracted Typhus typhus and died. The family then moved to St. Petersburg. Vladimir was an extraordinarily kind and unselfish child. He was characterized by an innate aristocracy, and was well versed in European languages.
===Education===
In 1917, the Bolsheviks closed the Senate, and Vladimir got a job as the statistician on the Moscow-Rybinsk Railway.
The desire to become a [[priest]] took shape under the influence of Russian disaster of 1917. He first announced his decision to become a priest in the days when the godless power started the open [[w:Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union|persecution of the Church]]. On his decision Specifically, Vladimir Konstantinovich decided to Vladimir announced become a priest in 1918, in when he witnessed the days when was arrested arrest and execution of his family friend and then shooted close to Lozina-Lozinsky former priest - Abbot in the Theodore Cathedral in [[w:Tsarskoye Selo|Tsarskoye Selo]], Fr. Father Alexander Vasilyev Vasyliev - who was also the last confessor of the [[Nicholas II of Russia|Royal Family]].
In 1920, Vladimir was admitted to the first year of the [[St. Petersburg Theological Academy|Theological Institute in St. Petersburg]], and in November filed a petition for [[ordination]]. After his ordination, he served in the University 's Church of All Saints in 1923, he was as [[Proistamenos|Rector]] of the church.
===Persecution===
He Vladimir was subjected to constant arrests. In 1924 he was constantly arrested: and accused of participation in 1924 on the case of "Spasskoye Brotherhood". However his family sent a petition to the authorities claiming that he was suffering from a serious mental illness, then thereby gaining his release. One theory was that his relatives struck this deal with the authorities by admitting a mental disorder in February 1925 (sentenced order to ten years in labor camps on charges free him, however none of monarchical plot his friends considered him mentally ill. When Vladimir testified, his answers were clear and restrained, and serving he always displayed a deep understanding of the memorial services (панихида) with subject matter at hand, and gave the commemoration impression of the Imperial Family)a balanced, thoughtful and legally educated person. Father Vladimir and another 34 people sentenced to death, but then expelled for ten years It was evident while he was testifying that he never attempted to the [[Solovetsky Monastery|Solovetsky concentration camp]]slander anyone.
FirstIn February 1925 he was arrested again and sentenced to ten years in labor camps, on charges of being involved in a monarchical plot, because he had served time in Solovki[[Memorial Services]] (панихида) commemorating the Imperial Family. Father Vladimir and another 34 people were originally sentenced to death, but were later exiled for ten years to the [[Solovetsky Monastery|Solovetsky concentration camp]]. Father Vladimir took endured camp life humbly and meekly, he and was friendly and kind. According to the memoirs of fellow prisoners аt [[Solovetsky Monastery|Solovki]], aristocratism the aristocraticism of his behavior did not disappear even then, ; he performed various tasks such as "he weigh weighing out stinking fish" in a food stall and carried , carrying parcels , or washing toilets. He became friends with father John Steblin-Kamensky and Michael Yavorsky, who were arrested in the case of the "[[Brotherhoods|Orthodox Brotherhoods]]" and had arrived at [[Solovetsky Monastery|Solovki]] before him. Subsequently, they also accepted [[martyr]]'s deaths.
He At Solovki Father Vladimir was friends with visited by his relatives, who helped him gain a reduction of his sentence. In November 1928 his sentence to the camp was replaced by five years exile in Siberia. After spending several months in a transit prison in Leningrad, father John Steblin-Kamensky and Michael Yavorsky arrested on "case was sent to the remote village of Pyanovo, which is 150 kilometers from the city of Orthodox Brotherhoods" and arrived at [[Solovetsky Monasteryw:Bratsk|SolovkiBratsk]] before him, Irkutsk oblast. SubsequentlyHere, they also accepted a martyr's deathFather Vladimir lived together in exile with bishop [[Basil (Zelentsov) of Prilutsk|Basil (Zelentsov)]], an implacable opponent of Metropolitan [[Sergius (Stragorodsky) of Moscow|Sergius]].
At Solovki After his release Father Vladimir visited by relatives, who have achieved reduction served in [[Novgorod]] and became [[rector]] of the Cathedral of sentence: in November 1928 at the conclusion Archangel Michael (1934-1935). The ruling Bishop of the camp Novgorod diocese at that time was replaced five years exile Archbishop [[Benedict (Plotnikov) of Kazan|Benedict (Plotnikov)]], who was familiar to Father Vladimir from joint service in SiberiaPetrograd.
After spending several months in a transit prison in Leningrad, father was sent to a remote village Pyanovo, which is 150 kilometers from the city of Bratsk, Irkutsk oblast. Along with father Vladimir in the same village lived in exile bishop On [[Basil (Zelentsov)May 14]], an implacable opponent of Metropolitan [[Sergius (Stragorodsky) of Moscow|Sergius]]. After his release Father Vladimir served in [[Novgorod]] and became [[rector]] of the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael (1934-1935). The ruling Bishop of the Novgorod diocese at that time was Archbishop Benedict (Plotnikov), who was familiar to father Vladimir from joint service in Petrograd. On May 14, 1936 Archpriest Vladimir was arrested again and sent for examination to the regional hospital for the mentally ill, where he was found sane.
===Martyrdom===
On [[December 8]], 1937 he was arrested again along with with a group of parishioners, pursuant to Article 58, on the charges of being members of the ''"people's democracy based on neostate capitalism"'' group. Archpriest Vladimir Lozina-Lozinski pleaded not guilty, stating that the existence of this group was had not been confirmed , and that he had slandered no one. However , on [[December 19]], he was sentenced to death by desision decision of the special "[[w:NKVD troika|NKVD troika]]", and on [[December 26]], 1937 he was shot in the [[Novgorod]] region.
The place of his burial remains unknown.
==Glorification==
He was [[Glorification|canonized]] and included among the [[New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia]], at the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox Church]] in August 2000, for general church [[veneration]].
==See also==
[[Category:Modern Saints]]
[[Category:St. Petersburg Academy Graduates]]
[[Category:20th-century saints]]
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