Alexander Hotovitzky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Hotovitzky

Russian Orthodox priest and saint

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1872

Place of Birth: Kremenets, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1937

Profession: priest

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Saint Alexander Hotovitzky (or Hotovitsky), hieromartyr of the Bolshevik yoke, Missionary of America, was a Ukrainian who came to the United States in the 1890s as a lay missionary and was ordained to the priesthood while there.
He was active as a missionary among the emigrated Uniates in the northeastern United States before being ordered back to Europe 1914.
He was to become vicar of the congregation of the Russian Embassy in Berlin.
Because of the outbreak of the First World War he was instead nominated as vicar of the Orthodox congregation in Helsinki, Finland, then a part of imperial Russia.
In 1917 he was assigned to Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.
After the Bolshevik coup he was subjected to many cruelties by the revolutionaries as he defended the Orthodox faith, his people, and church property.
Subjected to many arrests and exile Father Alexander served his beloved Church as best he could through these tumultuous times until after a final arrest he was executed during the Great Purge on August 19, 1937.
His glorification is celebrated on December 4.