John of Kafar

Holy Venerable John of Kafar, a hegumen, was born in 778 at Irenopolis. At Constantinople he was a monk, then hegumen of the Dalmatian monastery. In the time of the emperor Nicephorus I (802 to 811) he became hegumen of the monastery of the Kafars (the pure), founded in the time of the emperor Justin (518 to 527), near Nicaea. He suffered persecution for the veneration of the holy icons from the emperor Leo the Armenian (813 to 820). The venerable one was exiled to the island of Aphousia, where he fell asleep around the years 832 to 839.

The Church commemorates him on 10 May, in the new style, that is, 27 April in the old style, according to the Greek calendar. The page notes that he is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.