Ambrosios was born in
Smyrna (modern
İzmir), in the
Aidin vilayet of the
Ottoman Empire, in 1872. He graduated from the
Evangelical School of his home town at 1893. After his graduation Ambrosios became an archdeacon in the nearby metropolis of Heliopolis and Thyateira, based in
Aydın. He continued his studies and in 1895 he attended the
Theolodigal Academy of Kiev and then he became a priest in the Greek community of
Feodosiya in
Crimea. In 1910 Ambrosios returned to Smyrna, where he preached in the local metropolis, under metropolitan
Chrysostomos. Among these people was Ambrosios, who was buried alive after being tortured. ==References==