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Hierarch · 15th century

Pitirim and Jonah Bishops of Perm

Also known as Pitirim of Perm · Jonah of Perm

Successors of St. Stephen and St. Gerasimus in the see of Perm; Pitirim was slain by the pagan Voguls, and Jonah completed the conversion of the Permian peoples.

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Notes

Aug 19 = commemoration of St Pitirim, Bishop of Perm, individually.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Jan 29