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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Ischyrion

Bishop

A bishop of the early Church, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
November 23old style December 6
Era
4th century
Place
Hellas
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Ischyrion the Venerable is commemorated on 23 November (new style, the Greek calendar). The synaxarion says that he may have been bishop of Tarsus and that he reposed in peace. A verse says that in life he was a strength of the Church, and after death strengthens it in a spiritual way.

He should not be confused with the martyr Ischyrion commemorated on 1 June and 22 December. No further details of his life are preserved.

Commemorated the same day November 23