Joachim

Joachim, Bishop of Petra in Crete, was shot in June 1821 outside the church of the Mother of God in the village of Epano Fourni, where the seat of his diocese lay. The Ecumenical Patriarchate numbered him among the saints in the year 2000 as a hieromartyr, and he is commemorated on 23 June with the other martyrs of Crete of 1821.

Unlike the other bishops killed in those days, Joachim did not die in the church of St Menas at Heraklion. When the Turks slaughtered the metropolitan and the bishops gathered in synod, he was not among them. On the next day they went to the village of Epano Fourni, where the residence of the diocese of Petra stood, and killed him by shooting in front of the church of the Mother of God. Other sources give 25 June as the day of his death and say he was killed at a monastery in the neighbourhood; the account given here is that of the Synaxarion and the Church of Crete.

The Metropolis of Petra and Chersonisos counts him among its saints and remembers him in the synaxis of the martyrs of Crete.