John the Iberian[a] (Georgian: იოანე მთაწმინდელი; died c. 1002) was a Georgian monk, who is venerated as a saint.

A member of a Georgian noble family from Tao-Klarjeti in southern Georgia,[1] he was married and served as a military commander.

After becoming tonsured as a monk early 960s at the lavra of the Four Churches in Tao-Klarjeti, he became a monk at Mount Olympus (now Uludağ) in Bithynia and then traveled to Constantinople to rescue his son, Euthymius the Illuminator (Euthymius Opplyseren).

[2] John and his son attracted many followers, so they both retired to the monastery of Saint Athanasius on Mount Athos.

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