Saint Gregory of Kydonies Ἅγιος Γρηγόρος Κυδωνιών | |
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| Metropolitan of Kydonies New Ethno-Hieromartyr | |
| Born | 1864 Manisa, Ottoman Empire. |
| Died | October 3, 1922 Altınova, Ottoman Empire. |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | November 4, 1992, by Church of Greece.[note 1] |
| Feast | Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 7–13) |
Saint Gregory (Orologas) of Kydonies the Ethno-Hieromartyr,[2] also Gregory of Cydoniae[3] (Greek: Γρηγόριος Ωρολογάς Gregorios Orologas), 1864–1922, was a Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop in the early 20th century in northwest Anatolia, in the Ottoman Empire.
He was initially the Metropolitan of Strumica, in the region of Macedonia (October 12, 1902 – July 22, 1908), and then became the Metropolitan of Kydonies (modern Ayvalık), in northwestern Anatolia (July 22, 1908 – October 3, 1922). He was executed by the Turkish Army at the end of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).[4]
He is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Church as an Ethno-Hieromartyr (Greek: Ἐθνοϊερομάρτυρας), and his feast day is celebrated on the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross each year (September 7–13).
- ^ (in Greek) Κων/τίνος Β. Χιώλος. "Ο μαρτυρικός θάνατος του Μητροπολίτου Σμύρνης". Δημοσια Κεντρικη Βιβλιοθηκη Σερρων. Τετάρτη, 13 Σεπτεμβρίου 2006.
- ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ἐθνοϊερομάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. 12 Σεπτεμβρίου.
- ^ Stamatopoulos, Dimitrios. "Gregorios of Cydoniae". Transl. Velentzas, Georgios. Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor. 5/22/2002. Retrieved: 10 August 2014.
- ^ Kiminas 2009, pp. 76.
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