Hilarion the Younger ( el, Ἱλαρίων ὁ νέος) was an

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The ...

of the

Pelekete Monastery The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian ( el, Μονή Αγίου Ιωάννου του Θεολόγου), commonly known as the Pelekete monastery ( tr, Pelekete manastırı; el, Moνή Πελεκητής), is a ruined Byzantine-era monastery ...

in Bithynia, and a saint of the

Eastern Orthodox Church The Eastern Orthodox Church, also called the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 220 million baptized members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops vi ...

. He lived in the late 8th or early 9th century, and was an opponent of

Byzantine Iconoclasm The Byzantine Iconoclasm ( gr, Εικονομαχία, Eikonomachía, lit=image struggle', 'war on icons) were two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire when the use of religious images or icons was opposed by religious and imperial a ...

. Miracles were attributed to his tomb, and he is venerated by the

on 27 or 28 March. It has been suggested that he might be the anonymous abbot of Pelekete who died in 823, but the latter entertained a more moderate position against the iconoclasts, and was prepared to make concessions to them.

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* {{Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit , volume=online 8th-century Byzantine monks 9th-century Byzantine monks Byzantine Iconoclasm Saints from Anatolia Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Byzantine abbots Byzantine Bithynia