Statue of Chrisostomos of Smyrna

Local nameΆγαλμα Χρυσοστόμου Σμύρνης
LocationThessaloniki, Greece

Chrysostomos Kalafatis known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom, was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna between 1910 and 1914, and again from 1919 until his death in 1922. He was born in Triglia, Turkey in 1867, considerably aided the Greek campaign in Smyrna in 1919 and was subsequently 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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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysostomos_of_Smyrna

Address 35 Αγίας Σοφίας, Θεσσαλονίκη 54623, Greece

Coordinates 40°38'1.606" N 22°56'46.478" E

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