Seraphim was a Greek hierarch of the late sixteenth century who served as Archbishop of Phanarion and Neochorion in Ottoman-occupied Greece and died a martyr's death on December 4, 1601. He is numbered among the new martyrs of the Turkish period and is commemorated on December 4.
By tradition he was born in the mid-sixteenth century in the village of Mpizoula, in the Agrapha region of Greece, to pious parents named Sophronios and Maria. He embraced the monastic life at the Monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos at Korona, where he received the name Seraphim, was ordained to the priesthood, and in time came to serve as abbot of the community.
According to the synaxarion, he was accused of taking part in the rising led by Metropolitan Dionysios the Philosopher of Larissa against Ottoman authority. He was arrested, and his captors attempted in vain to make him renounce Christ for Islam. When he steadfastly refused, he was subjected to severe tortures and finally put to death by impalement near the marketplace of Phanarion, surrendering his spirit on December 4, 1601.
