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Chrysostomos Kalafatis (1867–1922) (Greek: Χρυσόστομος Καλαφάτης) known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna (Izmir) between 1910 and 1914 and again from 1919 to his death in 1922. He was born in Triglia (today Zeytinbağı) Turkey in 1867 and was killed by a lynching mob during the sacking of Smyrna by Turkish troops at the end of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.
