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Confessor

Basil the Confessor

Hierarch of Thessaloniki

Hierarch of Thessaloniki, venerated under the name Confessor.

Feast
February 1old style February 14
Era
unknown
Place
Athens
Order
Confessors

Life

Saint Basil the Confessor (Homologetes) was a hierarch of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Metropolitan of Thessaloniki. He is commemorated on 1 February.

According to the Bulgarian source, he was born at Athens. He left his native city and became a disciple of Venerable Euthymius of Thessaloniki, at Peristera near Thessaloniki, and he also laboured on the Holy Mountain. In the year 857 Euthymius tonsured him a monk. He was first bishop of Crete, and in 904 he became Metropolitan of Thessaloniki.

He was proclaimed a saint. We have no other details of his life, and the years given by the source cannot be verified here.

Commemorated the same day February 1