Chaeremon

Saint Chaeremon was bishop of Nilopolis in Egypt in the middle of the third century, and lived through the persecution of Decius (249-251). Saint Dionysius of Alexandria speaks of him in a letter to Fabius, bishop of Antioch. To escape persecution and death, Chaeremon fled with his wife to the mountains of Arabia and was never seen again. Nothing else is known about this bishop.

His name was entered on 22 December by Ado of Vienne in his martyrology, and from there it passed into the Roman Martyrology, which commemorates him together with other anonymous martyrs of the same time of whom Dionysius speaks. He is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church, although the sources do not show a martyr's death.