| Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
| Prochorus the Iberian | |
| Birth Date: | c. 985 |
| Death Date: | 1066 |
| Feast Day: | February 12 |
| Venerated In: | Georgian Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Death Place: | Wadi Mujib (present-day Jordan) |
| Titles: | Jerusalemite Father |
| Patronage: | Georgia Monastery of the Cross |
| Major Shrine: | Monastery of the Cross |
Prochorus the Iberian (Georgian: პროხორე ქართველი|tr) (c. 985–1066)[1] was a Georgian monk and founder of the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem.
According to the Georgian Vita of Prochorus, he was born in the Kingdom of the Iberians under the name of George of Shavsheti (Georgian: გიორგი შავშელი|tr) and was raised in the local monastery, where he became a monk, and later a priest. Around 1010–1015, aged 30, Prochorus would leave for the Holy Land. He would stay for number of years in the Lavra of Saint Sabas.[2] [3]
Prochorus later would move to Jerusalem in an attempt to gather his Georgian compatriots who were scattered throughout the Palestinian monasteries. Per Vita, Prochorus would construct the monastery in 1064[4] by the order of the King Bagrat IV of Georgia[5] and his donations brought to the Holy Land by George the Hagiorite.[6] [7]
Prochorus died in 1066.[8] He is venerated as a saint and his feast day in the Eastern Orthodox Church is February 12.[9]