Venerable
Nikita of Chios
Venerable monk of Chios, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- May 20old style June 2
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Holy Venerable Nikita of Chios struggled in the middle of the eleventh century together with the Holy Venerables John and Joseph, and they founded the New Monastery, Nea Moni, on the island of Chios.
The Azbyka page holds no life of them, only this note. Their memory is kept on 2 June in the Greek calendar, and they are not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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