Arsen of Ninotsminda

Venerable Arsen of Ninotsminda was a Georgian bishop, scholar, translator and famous calligrapher of the eleventh century, and a saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church. He died in 1082, on the Holy Mountain.

He became a monk in Jerusalem. He worked at the Otkhta monastery of Tao-⁠Klarjeti. Learning about him, John the Iberian and Euthymius the Athonite invited him to the Georgian Iviron monastery on Athos.

Arsen died on Athos and was buried next to Euthymius by George the Hagiorite. The year 1082 given by our source fits this burial with difficulty, since George the Hagiorite died in 1065, so the year should be taken with caution.