Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetChrysostomos of Smyrna
Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna
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Place of Birth: Triglia, Greece
About Chrysostomos of Smyrna
- Chrysostomos Kalafatis (8 January 1867 – 10 September 1922) (Greek: ???s?st?µ?? ?a?af?t??), known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom, was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna (Izmir) between 1910 and 1914, and again from 1919 until his death in 1922.
- He was born in Triglia (today Zeytinbagi), Turkey in 1867, considerably aided the Greek Invasion of Turkey and was killed by a lynch mob after Turkish troops took back the city at the end of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.
- He was declared a martyr and a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on 4 November 1992.
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