Chariton of Kudino

Venerable Chariton of Kudino was the founder and first abbot of the now suppressed Chariton monastery of Kudino, in the village of Kudino, in the Toropets district of the Tver region. He lived in the sixteenth century. He is a locally venerated saint; it is not known since when he has been venerated. The Church commemorates him on 28 September (11 October on the new style), by the old calendar, and on 10 April, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Pskov, where his name is also entered.

Almost no biographical information about him has survived. According to the Novgorod Sophia Chronicle, his relics rest under the ground in the former monastery church of the Annunciation, now the parish church of the Kudino churchyard, on Lake Kudino, three versts from the town of Toropets, in the Pskov governorate.

The celebration of the Synaxis of the Saints of Pskov, in which Venerable Chariton of Kudino is also included, was established on 10 April 1987 on the initiative of Metropolitan John (Razumov) of Pskov and with the blessing of Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and all Russia.