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Hieromartyr

Dorotheus

the Presbyter

A presbyter of Caesarea in Palestine who suffered for Christ.

Feast
November 5old style November 18
Era
3rd century
Place
Caesarea, Palestine
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Dorotheus was a modest priest and lived in the time of the Emperor Maximian, when Urbanus was governor of Palestine (in the year 298, according to the synaxarion). He suffered at Caesarea in Palestine, being given as food to the wild beasts.

He is commemorated on 5 November, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece, together with the other martyrs of the same persecution.

Commemorated the same day November 5