Alexander Volkonsky

Prince Alexandr Mikhailovich Volkonsky (Russian: Александр Михайлович Волконский, 25 April 1866 – 18 October 1934) was a Russian General Staff officer, military attaché and writer, who in later life, was ordained a priest by the Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church.

In September 1901 – October 1902 Volkonsky commanded 3rd Squadron of the Sumy Dragoons regiment.

On 6 July 1930 was ordained to the priesthood by Bulgarian Roman Catholic bishop, Exarch of Sofia Cyril Kurtev.

He participated in the Congress of the Russian Catholic clergy in Rome (1930), on behalf of which he wrote historical and the dogmatic work "Catholicism and the Holy Tradition of the East " (Paris, 1933–1934).

Volkonsky worked at the Pontifical Commission Pro Russia, which was responsible for all matters concerning Catholics of all rites inside the Soviet Union and Russians in the Diaspora, and as a teacher of Russian and other Slavic languages at the Pontifical Oriental Institute.

He was buried in the crypt of the Greek College in Rome's Campo Verano cemetery (grave was not preserved).