Iakovos Archatzikakis

Iakovos Archatzikakis was a Greek cleric and theologian from Ziros in Crete, and is honoured as a new martyr: he was butchered by the Turks in the church where he served, at Smyrna, during the Asia Minor Catastrophe, in 1922.

After theological studies at Jerusalem, at the Theological School of Halki and at Bern, he became director of the Priestly School of Jerusalem. Later, exiled by the Holy Synod there to Smyrna, he was appointed priest of the Buca community in Smyrna. In 1922, when the Turks took Smyrna, he was killed in the church where he was officiating at that very moment. He wrote many works, among them "Christianity and Materialism" (in French, 1903) and "The Principal Feasts in the Ancient Eastern Church", published at Jerusalem in 1910.