Pappos

Holy Hierarch Pappos the Confessor was the first bishop of Chytri (modern Kythrea) in Cyprus and is known from the Life of Saint Epiphanius of Salamis. Epiphanius relates that he shepherded an insignificant town for fifty-⁠eight years, yet was revered by all for what he had suffered in the persecution of Christians. He was made bishop in the year 309.

When the bishops of Cyprus gathered at Salamis to choose a successor to the late Archbishop Gelasius, Pappos received a divine revelation that the monk Epiphanius, who happened to be passing through, was to be the new bishop. Supported by two deacons, he went to meet Epiphanius, and when the latter begged to be excused, Pappos revealed that he had been chosen by God to shepherd Salamis and all Cyprus.

Saint Pappos reposed a year later, in 368. He is commemorated on 3 June (new style).