In 1955, Archimandrite Alexander recognized the election of Patriarch Alexy (Simansky) and reunited with the Patriarchal Church

New Martyr Alexander Vyatsky, Archimandrite  Orthodox life Преподобноисповедник Александр (Уродов), архимандрит Rev. Alexander, Archimandrite Archimandrite Alexander ( Georgy Andreyevich Urodov) was born in 1882 in the family of a peasant in the village of Nevezhkino of the Chembarsky district of the Penza province. After graduating from the Zemstvo school, he was appointed a chorister in his parish church. In 1901, going on a trip to the city of Sarov, he stopped at the Sanaksar Monastery. Here George decided to devote his life to monastic works. On August 30, 1911, the novice George was tonsured a monk with the name Alexander. Soon in Tambov he was ordained to the rank of hierodeacon, and on July 22, 1913 - in the hieromonk. On July 20, 1915, Hieromonk Alexander was elected a brother to the abbots of the Sanaksar Monastery and was elevated to the rank of hegumen by Archbishop Cyril (Smirnov). In 1917, a wave of revolution and red terror swept over Russia. At the end of February 1918, part of the brethren, headed by Hieromonk Vladimir, supported by the Bolsheviks, made a revolt in the monastery and removed the abbot Alexander from the position of rector of the monastery. By order of the Military Revolutionary Tribunal on March 27, 1918, Father Alexander was arrested. During the interrogation, he pleaded not guilty, and the tribunal decided to expel him from the monastery. April 3, 1922 Alexander, by the definition of the Holy Synod, was appointed governor of the Seven-desert desert of the Kazan diocese with the elevation to the rank of archimandrite. The authorities here also turned their anger on him - in 1922, Fr. Alexander was held accountable for the seizure of church property. But, in spite of all the persecutions, in the same year he became an active participant in the struggle against renovationism in the Kazan region, and the Seven-Grained Desert turned into the center of this struggle with his works. On October 31, 1928, Archimandrite Alexander was arrested and sentenced to three years in a concentration camp and three years of exile in the Urals. After the exile, Father Alexander ended up in the Vyatka diocese. On August 5, 1935, Bishop Demetrius of Yaransky (Pospelov) appointed Archimandrite Alexander in the village of Sobolevo, now the Sanchursky district of the Kirov region. Here, for 26 years, Father Alexander labored about the Lord and passed away. For a long time he was one of the so-called "not remembering." In 1955, Archimandrite Alexander recognized the election of Patriarch Alexy (Simansky) and reunited with the Patriarchal Church, writing a letter to the ruling bishop of the Kirov diocese, Archbishop Benjamin (Tikhonitsky) asking for a monastic burial after his death. On August 14/27, 1961, having reached a very old age, Archimandrite Alexander departed to the Lord. His holy relics are now in the Sanaksar monastery.