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Saint

Cyril of Gortyna

Bishop of Gortyna

Bishop of Gortyna in Crete.

Feast
August 25old style September 7
Era
unknown
Place
Gortyn

Life

Holy Hierarch Cyril of Gortyna is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 25 August (new style), as bishop of Gortyna in Crete.

The sources consulted do not say when he shepherded his flock nor what he did as a hierarch. What remains is his name in the calendar, on the same day as Saint Titus, the first bishop of Crete, and Saint John of Karpathos.

Commemorated the same day August 25