Pachomios of Docheiariou

Pachomios of Docheiariou, with the secular name Panagiotis Pantazopoulos, was born in 1889 at Voutaina in Messenia. He came to Docheiariou Monastery in 1912. He submitted to the abbot and confessor of very strict morals and principles, the hieromonk Panteleimon of Polichnitos, Lesbos. Despite his infirmity, lameness, he was a constantly zealous monk and a great fighter, both in the monastery's obediences and in his spiritual duties, according to the testimony of a younger fellow monk.

He passed from the valley of weeping to the unwaning life on 19 November 1944, ten days after the feast of the Holy Archangels. Holy angels carried to the throne of the Almighty God the pure soul of this humble, sick, weak but also zealous monk, who for more than thirty years served the pious fold of the Archangels and of the Gorgoepekoos. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.