Meletius of Cyprus

Holy Hierarch Meletius of Cyprus was a bishop, a shepherd known for his pious life and his zealous service of the Church. His story is joined to that of Saint Isaac, also a bishop of Cyprus, and the two are commemorated together on 4 October, in the new style.

The two hierarchs fulfilled the same episcopal ministry and were God-⁠fearing and full of Christian virtues. Their unceasing work was to teach the people the divine and spiritual words and to lead them in the way of God's commandments. Both were merciful: they distributed their possessions to the poor and fed them not only with bodily bread but with spiritual bread, through teachings profitable to the soul. By their lives they won the gift of working wonders, and they died in peace, in old age, in different years but on the same day.

Isaac shepherded and died in Cyprus. Of Meletius, who died later, it is not known in what city.