Chariton of Tiberiopolis

Holy Venerable Martyr Chariton of Tiberiopolis is one of the sixteen members of a monastic fraternity who received death for Christ in the year 361, in the persecution of Julian the Apostate. In the second half of the fourth century a brotherhood of monks flourished in Tiberiopolis (today Strumica). The martyrs are the bishops Theodore and Timothy, the priests Theodore, John, Nicephorus, Peter and Sergius, the deacons Basil and Thomas and the monks Daniel, Eusebius, Hierophthes, Comasius, Socrates, Chariton and Ethimasius.

The local population kept their memory. After the First Balkan War, when Strumica passed to Bulgaria, the Greeks living in the city moved in 1913 to Kilkis and other places in Macedonia. They took with them part of the holy relics, the hand of the priest Peter, one of the sixteen martyrs, which since then has been in Kilkis, in the church that bears this martyr's name. Their service was printed three times, in 1741, 1830 and 1930. In 1967 the sixteen martyrs of Tiberiopolis were proclaimed patrons of Kilkis.

They are commemorated on 11 December, according to the Greek calendar (new style). They are not in the present calendar of the Russian Church.