Tifoy of the Thebaid

Holy Venerable Tifoy of the Thebaid was a disciple of Saint Pachomius the Great, the founder of communal monastic life in the desert of Upper Egypt. No other details of his life are recorded in the calendar page that gives his name.

He is commemorated in the Synaxis of All the Venerable Fathers who shone in ascetic labour, whose day is movable. The calendar lists him on 13 March, in the new style.