Hierarch · 19th century
Saint Meletius Archbishop of Kharkov
Also known as Meletius Leontovich · Meletius of Kharkov and Akhtyrsk · the Unmercenary Bishop
A nineteenth-century archbishop of Kharkov and Akhtyrsk, called "the Unmercenary Bishop" for giving all he had to the poor; a man of unceasing prayer and night vigils, he reposed in 1840.
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Notes
His repose fell on Feb 29; in non-leap years the leap-day commemoration transfers to Feb 28.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Feb 12 & Feb 29