Alexander

Saint Alexander was bishop of Amathus, a city on the southern coast of Cyprus. The Greek source places him in the last quarter of the eighth century: in 787 he took part, with other Cypriot hierarchs, in the Seventh Ecumenical Council at Nicaea, which restored the veneration of the holy icons. His name appears in the acts of the Council.

He was the second bishop of Amathus from the age of the Arab raids whose name is known; the one before him was John, after 654. The year 654 given in his record therefore belongs to his predecessor, not to Alexander. The same source notes that the saint is absent from the synaxaria and that no day of commemoration is fixed; he is honoured as a hierarch of Cyprus.