Timothy of the Caves

Venerable Timothy of the Caves was hegumen of the Kyiv Caves Lavra from 1124 until his death, in 1131 or 1132, on 24 May. He lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Church commemorates him on 28 August (10 September by the new calendar), in the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Far Caves of Kyiv; the Ukrainian source gives 10 September.

In his time a great fire broke out in Kyiv, in which a considerable part of the city and nearly six hundred churches burned. A chronicle of the year 6637 (1130) shows that Saint Timothy covered with gold and silver the shrine of Venerable Theodosius of the Caves, at the expense of the military leader of Suzdal, Prince George Simonovich, who sent for this five hundred grivnas of silver and fifty grivnas of gold. It is also known that during Timothy's time as hegumen, Nifont, later bishop of Novgorod, received tonsure.

Venerable Timothy departed to the Lord in 1131 or 1132. His relics lie in the Far (Theodosius's) Caves of the Kyiv Caves Lavra.