He was born in Kidonia (now Ayvalık, Turkey) and took monastic vows at the skete of St. Anna on Mount Athos. By the blessing of the skete fathers, he collected donations in Smyrna for the restoration of the burned churches of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the Most Holy Theotokos.
Desiring to suffer for Christ, he went to Magnesia, where he publicly confessed the Orthodox faith, was subjected to flogging, wounded in the head, and expelled from the city. Returning to Athos, he received a blessing for martyrdom from Metropolitan Pancratius of Christopolis.
In Thessalonica, he attempted to bring back to the Church a monk who had accepted Islam, for which he was captured by the Turks and sentenced to hanging. He was martyred on June 26, 1813.
Information about the saint is absent in the “New Martyrologion” and other hagiographic sources. The account of his martyrdom was found in the skete of St. Anna and published in 1929, later literary processed and included in the “Great Synaxarion.”
