Athanasius of Isparta

Holy New Martyr Athanasius of Isparta was a priest and received the crown of martyrdom at Mudanya in Asia Minor on 29 October 1653, as the New Martyrologion records. He came from Isparta (Sparta of Attaleia) in Pisidia.

A verse of the synaxarion bids him receive immortality through death, he who was the glory of the priesthood. The saint's canon was composed by Meletios Syrigos. The scholar Otto Meinardus gives 7 January as the day of his commemoration and confuses the circumstances of his life with those of Athanasius of Attaleia, who was martyred in 1700, but the Greek sources commemorate him on 29 October.

The Greek calendar (new style) commemorates him on 29 October; in another list, for 28 October, he is named together with the hieromartyr Kyriakos.