Saint
Metrophanes
A hierarch commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- February 4old style February 17
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Saint Metrophanes the Hierarch is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 4 February (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) as archbishop of Vladimir, in Russia. On the same day the same calendar remembers, among others, Saint Isidore of Pelusium and Great Prince George of Vladimir.
The sources consulted give neither the time of his shepherding nor other details of his life.
Commemorated the same day February 4
George of VladimirRight-Believing · Grand Prince of VladimirFeb 4
Isidore of PelusiumVenerable · Hermit near PelusiumFeb 4
Theophilus of AdanaSaint · Steward of the Church of AdanaFeb 4
Abraham of ArbelaSaint · Bishop of ArbelaFeb 4
Nicholas the StuditeVenerable · Abbot of the Stoudios MonasteryFeb 4
Cyril of NovoezerskVenerable · Founder of Novoezersk MonasteryFeb 4
Alexei SharovHieromartyr · ArchpriestFeb 4
Catherine of SimbirskVenerable Martyr · Nun at SimbirskFeb 4
John TikhomirovHieromartyr · PriestFeb 4- Anthony of SupraślVenerable MartyrFeb 4
Nicholas PospelovHieromartyr · ArchpriestFeb 4
Methodius KrasnoperovHieromartyr · Bishop of PetropavlovskFeb 4