Gregory of New Patras

Gregory, Metropolitan of New Patras (Ypati), was killed by the Turks in 1711 while serving the Liturgy in the cathedral of St Nicholas at Ypati. He is honoured locally as a new hieromartyr in the Metropolis of Fthiotida, and has no known canonization. He does not appear in the synaxaria of the Church and is almost unknown.

He came from Thebes in Boeotia and later became Metropolitan of New Patras. One day, on the eve of the singing of the Akathist, while he was serving the Liturgy in the metropolitan cathedral, some Turks entered the church and slaughtered him before the Holy Altar, with the Holy Chalice in his hands, in the sight of some Christians who had come from the surrounding villages. This took place in the year 1711.

In the Metropolis of Fthiotida he is commemorated on the Sunday between 18 and 24 March, the day on which all the saints of Fthiotida are celebrated. In the basement of the church of St Paraskevi in Lamia there is a chapel dedicated to the holy hieromartyr Gregory, consecrated by Metropolitan Nicholas on 4 April 2009.