The holy, glorious, right-victorious hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov) of Leningrad and Gdovsk was the Metropolitan of the Diocese of Leningrad and Gdovsk in the Church of Russia between 1928 and 1933. Influenced by Fr. John of Kronstadt, he became a monk after serving in the Russian army. He was executed by the Bolsheviks during the purges of the mid 1930s. He is commemorated on December 11.