Alexander Hotovitzky | |
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 Photograph taken before 1909. | |
| Hieromartyr | |
| Born | February 11, 1872 Kremenetz, Volhynia, Russia |
| Died | August 19, 1937 (aged 65) |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | 1994 |
| Feast | November 21 (Church calendar) December 4 (Civil calendar) |
Alexander Hotovitzky (or Hotovitsky Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Хотови́цкий) (1872-1937) was a Russian Orthodox hieromartyr.
He was ordained to the priesthood while working in the United States in the 1890s. He was ordered back to Europe in 1914, where we worked as a vicar in Berlin and Helsinki, Finland, then a part of imperial Russia. In 1917 he was assigned to Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. After the October Revolution he was arrested multiple times and exiled. He was executed during the Great Purge on August 19, 1937.
His glorification is celebrated on 21 November in the Church Calendar, December 4 in the Civil Calendar.