Ammonius the Monk

Venerable Ammonius the Monk was an Egyptian monk of the fourth century, an ascetic in the desert of Nitria, who fell asleep at the end of that century or the beginning of the next (the date in our records is 399). He was a disciple of Venerable Pambo. For love of stillness he refused the rank of bishop, although the people who had elected him and the Patriarch of Alexandria begged him. He knew Holy Scripture very well.

The stories of the desert remember him among the first great monks of Nitria. He is commemorated on 28 February (new style), together with Venerable Pior and other fathers of the desert.