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Hieromartyr

Arkadios of Iviron

of Iviron Monastery

A hieromonk of Iviron killed at Kydonies in Asia Minor in 1922 with Gabriel; venerated locally (Vatopedi Monastery).

Feast
September 11old style September 24
Reposed
192220th century
Place
Iviron, Mount Athos
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Arkadios of Iviron, of the Iviron Monastery, was a hieromonk and died a martyr at Kydonies (Ayvalik) in Asia Minor in 1922, together with the hieromonk Gabriel of Iviron. Vatopaidi remembers him on 11 September, on the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. He is honoured locally, at Vatopaidi, by the faithful, without synodal canonization. Our sources give no details of his life and martyrdom.

Commemorated the same day September 11