John the New of Ephesus

Holy Hierarch John the New of Ephesus, an archbishop, is commemorated together with Holy Hierarch John the Monk, also archbishop of Ephesus. Of both the Azbyka page gives no life: their names are found, without further explanation, in Byzantine manuscripts, under 3 August in the Patmos copy of the Typikon of the Great Church, of the ninth and tenth centuries, and under 4 August in two Menaia of the thirteenth century.

Of the Orthodox bishops of Ephesus named John, from before the ninth and tenth centuries, one is known to have held the see in the year 458 and one to have taken part in the Seventh Ecumenical Council, of 787. The commemoration of the two is not found in the Synaxarion of Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite, nor in the present calendars of the Greek Churches. The page gives the commemoration on 17 August, according to the Byzantine calendar, and notes that John the New is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.