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Chrysostomos of Smyrna
Chrysostomos of Smyrna | |
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 Photograph of St. Chrysostomos of Smyrna. | |
| New-Hieromartyr | |
| Born | 8 January 1867 Triglia, Bursa Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (Now Tirilye, Turkey) |
| Died | 10 September 1922 Smyrna, Greek Zone of Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey) |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | 4 November 1992 by Church of Greece |
| Feast | Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (7-13 September) |
| Attributes | Episcopal vestments, usually holding a staff or a Gospel. |
Chrysostomos Kalafatis (Greek: Χρυσόστομος Καλαφάτης; 8 January 1867 – 10 September 1922), also known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna,[1] Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom, was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna (İzmir) between 1910 and 1914, and again from 1919 until his death in 1922. He was born in Triglia (today Tirilye) in the then Ottoman Empire (now part of Turkey) in 1867. He aided the Greek campaign in Smyrna in 1919 and was subsequently killed by a lynch mob after Turkish troops occupied the city at the end of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.[2] He was declared a martyr and a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on 4 November 1992.[3]
- ^ Αγιος Χρυσόστομος Σμύρνης – Η Ραφήνα τιμά τη μνήμη του 85 έτη από τον μαρτυρικό θάνατό του Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Kathimerini.gr, 10 November 2007. (Greek)
- ^ Hannibal Travis (2010). Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan. Carolina Academic Press. p. 291. ISBN 978-1-59460-436-2.
The archbishop was among those massacred during the next month in the Turkish sack of Smyrna.
- ^ Αγ. Χρυσόστομος Σμύρνης Archived 21 July 2011 at archive.today Municipality of Triglia (Greek)
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