Pachomius of Vladimir

Saint Pachomius of Vladimir, a venerable hieromartyr, was archimandrite of the Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery in Vladimir and died in 1238, when the city was taken by the Mongol-⁠Tatar armies.

The chronicle account of the sack of Vladimir in 1238, preserved in the Vladimir Chronicle Compilation of 1281, names Pachomius together with Abbot Daniel of the Dormition and Abbot Theodosius of the Saviour as the most respected clergy of the city after Bishop Mitrofan. It says that they and the other abbots, monks, nuns, priests and deacons were killed there. The synodikon of the Dormition Cathedral in Rostov calls Daniel, Pachomius and Theodosius venerable abbots.

The exact date of their death is not known. Most historians think that Vladimir was taken by the forces of Khan Batu in a single day, 7 February 1238, but the chronicles show that on that day only one of the three parts of the city, the New Town, was seized. The middle town, where the Nativity Monastery, the Dormition Cathedral, the bishop and the grand prince's family were, seems to have fallen soon after.

According to Archimandrite Leonid Kavelin, Pachomius was buried in the Dormition Cathedral, and Daniel and Theodosius in the Transfiguration Monastery at the Golden Gate in Vladimir. Their canonization took place at the end of the twentieth century, when their names were included in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir, whose feast was established in 1982. Saint Pachomius is commemorated on 6 July, in the new style.