Platon

Platon Frangiadis was Metropolitan of Chios, hanged by the Ottomans in 1822 during the massacre on Chios. The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece numbered him among the saints on 15 July 2021, as a hieromartyr and ethnomartyr, and the Church of Chios commemorates him with the clergy and monks killed with him on the Sunday of the Paralytic.

He was born in 1775 or 1776, as the sources differ, and was a teacher at the school of Kourountzesme in Constantinople. The Ecumenical Patriarchate elected him Metropolitan of Chios in January 1817, after the death of Metropolitan Dionysios. When the Revolution broke out in 1821 the Ottomans arrested him with other notables of the island and shut him in the dark prison of the castle of Chios, where seventy-⁠four notables in all were imprisoned. With him was his archdeacon, Makarios Garris.

After nearly a year in prison, at the massacre of 1822, the metropolitan was hanged. The Metropolis of Chios gives the day as 23 April 1822, in the square of Vounaki in the town of Chios, where his monument stands today, together with the archdeacon and several notables. According to some sources the other imprisoned elders were put to death afterwards, ten at a time.

The saint's bones were moved in June 2013 to the metropolitan church of Chios, where they are kept in a marble reliquary, beside the relics of Saint Isidore, the martyr of Chios. In front of the castle stands the statue of the metropolitan. The Synod's act was read at Vrontados on 15 May 2022 by Metropolitan Theologos of Serres, the Synod's envoy. Metropolitan Markos of Chios, who proposed the canonization, has the commemoration kept every year at the metropolitan cathedral.