John the Monk

Holy Hierarch John the Monk, archbishop of Ephesus, is commemorated together with Holy Hierarch John the New, also archbishop of Ephesus. Their names, without any further detail, are found in a few Byzantine manuscripts: under 3 August in the Patmos copy of the Typikon of the Great Church (ninth and tenth centuries) and under 4 August in the Menaia Paris Suppl. gr. 152 and Vindob. Theol. gr. 300 (thirteenth century).

Among the Orthodox bishops of Ephesus named John, from times earlier than the ninth and tenth centuries (when the archetype of the Patmos copy was formed), are known John, who held the see in the year 458, and John, who took part in the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787. The commemoration of these saints has not entered the Synaxarion of Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite, nor the present calendar of the Greek Churches. The Azbyka page gives the commemoration on 17 August, according to the Byzantine calendar, and notes that they are not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.