Athenodorus

Holy Hierarch Athenodorus lived in Pontus, in Asia Minor, in the third century, and the Greek synaxaria remember him as the brother of Saint Gregory the Wonderworker of Neocaesarea. The place recorded for him is Niksar, ancient Neocaesarea, and his death is placed around the year 270.

Tradition holds that the two brothers were disciples of Origen and that both became shepherds of the Church in Pontus. No details of Athenodorus' own deeds have survived; the synaxarion itself admits that nothing is known of his life. He is also counted among the Christian writers of his age.