Venerable
Heraclius of Bessarabia
Protosyncellus, exarch of monasteries
A protosyncellus born in 1893, exarch of the monasteries of the Archdiocese of Chișinău, canonized in 2024.
- Feast
- August 3old style August 16
- Reposed
- 196420th century
- Place
- Chițcani
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Venerable Heraclius of Bessarabia was a Romanian Orthodox monk with the rank of protosyncellus and exarch of the monasteries of the Archdiocese of Chișinău. He was born on 11 March 1893 at Pojorâta, then in Austria-Hungary, and died on 16 August 1964 at Chițcani, in the Moldavian SSR. His family name was Flocea.
The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church canonized him at its session of 11-12 July 2024, with the title Saint Venerable Heraclius of Bessarabia, and set his feast on 3 August.
Our sources do not say more about his life and deeds.
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