caption canonized_by death_date death_place canonized_date birth_place feast_day imagesize venerated_in birth_date titles major_shrine image article_title name canonized_place
saint and gdov benjamin -lrb- kazansky -rrb- , metropolitan of petrograd russian orthodox church 13 august 1922 31 july kovalevsky forest , soviet union 4 april 1992 olonets governorate , russian empire 31 july 250px eastern orthodoxy 29 april 1873 17 april heiromartyr nikolskoe cemetery of the alexander nevsky lavra Сщмч . Вениамин -lrb- Казанский -rrb- . jpg saint benjamin of petrograd
 saint benjamin of petrograd danilov monastery , moscow , russian federation
saint benjamin of petrograd

saint benjamin of petrograd -lrb- , veniamin petrogradsky , -- -rrb- born vasily pavlovich kazansky -lrb- -rrb- was a hieromartyr , a bishop in the russian orthodox church and eventually metropolitan of petrograd and gdov from 1917 to 1922 .
he was martyred , executed by a firing squad by soviet authorities .
in april 1992 benjamin was glorified -lrb- canonized -rrb- by the russian orthodox church together with several other martyrs , including archimandrite sergius -lrb- shein -rrb- , professor yury novitsky , and john kovsharov -lrb- a lawyer -rrb- , who were murdered with him .
