Alexander Ivanovich Yuzefovich

Born in the village of Gruzovo, Vilna Province, on September 1, 1858, in the family of a church reader. He graduated from 2 classes of the Molodechno Teacher's Seminary in Vilna Province. On June 10, 1875, he was admitted as a novice to the Vilna Holy Spirit Monastery.

On December 2, 1876, he was appointed as a psalm reader at the Vilna Transfiguration Cathedral by Archbishop Makariy of Vilna and Lithuania. On February 12, 1877, he was accepted into the Turkestan Diocese upon his request and appointed as a psalm reader at the church of the Lepsinskaya Stanitsa. From May 10, 1879, to June 1, 1882, he served as the personal secretary and subdeacon to the Turkestan hierarch. On June 11, 1882, he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Alexander of Turkestan and Tashkent, and on July 18, he was ordained a priest for the Kazan Church in the village of Preobrazhenskoye. On November 11, 1885, he was awarded the nabedrennik by Bishop Neofit for his zeal in organizing the Issyk-Kul Monastery. On December 10, 1899, he was awarded the purple skufia for his zeal in constructing a new church in the village of Preobrazhenskoye.

On May 6, 1908, he was appointed a law teacher at the parish school in the village of Preobrazhenskoye. Subsequently, he served in the village of Kara-Balta, Pishpek District, Semirechenskaya Region.

He was executed along with the psalm reader Ioann Menkov on December 26, 1920.

He was glorified at the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.