He was the bishop of Thyatira, a native of Pergamum. He suffered for Christ, with the deacon Papilus, during the time of the emperor Decius and the governor Valerius. Valerius drove them to Saar, where he tortured them, but the angel of God healed them. Then they dragged them to Pergamum. They tied Karpa to a tree and whipped him until he was covered in wounds. Then he started laughing. When they asked him why he was laughing, he said that he saw the heavens open and the Lord on the throne, with cherubim and seraphim around. Papilla, while they were torturing him, healed a man blind in one eye and many, seeing this, believed in Christ. They threw them in front of the beasts, and then into the fiery furnace, into which Papila's sister Agathonica jumped with them. In the end, they were cut down with the sword in 251 AD.

Memorial of the Holy 365 Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council. Holy Great Martyrs Zlata Maglenska and Bosiljka Pasjanska, Holy Martyr Benjamin, deacon.