Malchion

Saint Malchion the Venerable was a presbyter of the Church of Antioch and is commemorated on 28 October (new style, the Greek calendar) together with Saint Firmilian, Archbishop of Caesarea. The verse of the synaxarion says that both died in peace, as children of peace.

The Greek source states that both venerable fathers struggled against heretics. Firmilian is mentioned with affection by Saint Basil the Great, and at a synod convened by this archbishop at Iconium it was decided that Novatians and, in general, all heretics who wished to enter the true Church should be baptized. No further details of the life of Malchion are preserved in the source consulted.