Hieromartyr Constantine, Priest

Konstantin Lebedev (1884–1918) was born in the Perm region and studied at the Perm seminary. He was ordained deacon in 1909 and priest in 1912, served at the church of the Prophet Elijah at Ust-Utka in the Verkhoturye district and then at the Saviour church in the village of Uyskoye in the Kamyshlov district.

In July 1918, in the first months of the Civil War and the Red Terror, soldiers arrested him after the Liturgy and took him to a railway station. On the night of 9 July (22 July New Style) he was tortured and killed. He was glorified among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church in 2002, on the request of the Ekaterinburg diocese.