John Tornike


John Tornike
A fresco of Tornike at Iviron on Mount Athos
Athonite Father
Bornc. 920
Kingdom of the Iberians
Died985
Mount Athos
Venerated inGeorgian Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Major shrineIviron
FeastJune 12 (Church calendar)
PatronageGeorgia
Mount Athos

John Tornike (Georgian: იოანე თორნიკე, romanized: ioane tornik'e; Greek: Ιωάννης Τορνίκιος), also known as Tornike Eristavi (Georgian: თორნიკე ერისთავი; died in 985) was a retired Georgian general and monk who came to be better known as a founder of the formerly Georgian Orthodox Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos in modern-day northeastern Greece.