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He was notable for his charity work and for having been deeply involved in the politics of his day <ref>. The American Consul at Smyrna, George Horton, wrote in his book ''The Blight of Asia'' that he "was there [in Smyrna] up until the evening of [[September 11]], [[1922]], on which date the city was set on fire by the army of Mustapha Khemal".
Horton refers to "Metropolitan Chrysostom" several times: "On on one occasion I was present at an important service in the Orthodox cathedralCathedral, to which the representative of the various powers, as well as the principal Greek authorities, had been invited. The [Hellenic] High-Commissioner [for Ionia, Aristidis Stergiadis, which Horton spells 'Sterghiades'] had given the order that the service should be strictly religious and non-political. Unfortunately, Archbishop Chrysostom (he who was later murdered by the Turks) began to introduce some politics into his sermon, a thing which he was extremely prone to do. Sterghiades, who was standing near him, interrupted, saying: 'But I told you I didn’t want any of this.' The archbishop flushed, choked, and breaking off his discourse abruptly, ended with, 'In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Amen,' and stepped off the rostrum." [http://www.hri.org/docs/Horton/HortonBook.htm] Marjorie Housepian (Hovsepian) Dobkin remarks in her book ''The Smyrna Affair'' that "the archbishopThe Archbishop's murder was reported to Admiral Dumesnil aboard the French flagship."</ref>
After the defeat of the Greek Army in Anatolia and the re-occupation of Smyrna by the Turks, Chrysostomos refused to leave Smyrna and abandon his flock. The metropolitan was abducted by a mob incited by Nureddin Pasha on [[September 9]], 1922. According to eyewitness accounts, he was tied to a barber chair, cruelly tortured, and put to death.