Sources and the Limits of the Record
The Orthodox Church in America's commemoration for April 24 lists Elijah the Wallachian as a hieromartyr and confessor but records that no biographical information is available. The accompanying troparion and kontakion praise him in general terms as one who followed the ways of the Apostles, taught the word of truth without error, and defended the Orthodox faith to the shedding of his blood, but they supply no specific dates, places, or narrative of his life and death.
Because his liturgical title combines hieromartyr (a martyred priest) with confessor, the tradition remembers him as a clergyman who both endured persecution for confessing the faith and ultimately died for it. Reachable reference works add nothing further, and his era and century remain unrecorded; the entry stands as an honest stub pending verification from fuller Romanian hagiographical sources and clergy review.