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[[Image:Neomartyr Philoumenos.jpg|right|thumb|New Martyr Archimandrite Philoumenos (+1979), keeper of the Greek Orthodox monastery of [[Jacob's Well]] in Samaria (Nablus, West Bank).]]
[[Image:Hieromartyr of Jacob's Well Philoumenos.gif|right|thumb|Hieromartyr Saint Philoumenos of [[Jacob's Well]].]]
[[New Martyrs|New martyr]] Archimandrite '''Philoumenos (Hasapis)'''<ref group="note">Note that some of the sources disagree on whether Father Philoumenos' surname was ''"Hasapis"'' or ''"Orountiotis."'' His spiritual son Monk Yeghia Yenovkian writes that he was ''"[http://www.roca.org/OA/94/94k.htm Born to the pious Cypriot family of Hasapis]"''. However, a [http://www.scribd.com/doc/9195929/- Greek book] dealing with modern saints of the Orthodox Church (published August 2004) refers to his last name in a brief biographical entry as ''"Orountiotis."''</ref> (Greek: Φιλουμενος ο Κυπριος), [[October 15]], 1913 - [[November 16]], 1979, was the [[Igumen]] of the [[Greek Orthodox]] [[Monasticism|monastery]] of [[Jacob's Well]] near the city of Samaria, now called Nablus (Neapolis), in the West Bank. He was glorified by the the [[Church of Jerusalem|Patriarchate of Jerusalem]] on [[August 17]]/30, 2008, and he is commemorated by the Church on [[November 16]]/29.<ref group="note">Father Philoumenos' was martyred on his [[Name day]] of November 29th ''(Old Style),'' feast of the 3rd century [[martyrs]] Paramon and Philoumen (ca. AD 270).</ref>
The life of Father Philoumenos is an example that martyrdom for Christ is not of the past from the Roman Empire or Communist times, but is a reality even in our own day.<ref name="ACROD">Very Rev. Fr. Edward Pehanich. ''[http://www.acrod.org/assets/files/PDFS/Messenger/CM%20-%201-08_Web.pdf Father Philoumenos of Jacobs Well 1913-1979].'' In: '''The Church Messenger''', American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A. Volume LXIV, Number 1, January 27, 2008. Page 7.</ref>