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
LinusApostle · Bishop of RomeNov 5
Gaius of EphesusApostle · Apostle of the SeventyNov 5
Hermas of PhilippopolisApostle · Bishop of PhilippopolisNov 5
Philologus of SinopeApostle · Bishop of SinopeNov 5
Galaktion and EpistemeHoly MartyrsNov 5
PatrobasApostle · Apostle of the SeventyNov 5
TrofimenaSaintNov 5
Jonah of NovgorodSaint · Archbishop of Novgorod and PskovNov 5
Mark of EcaSaint · Bishop of EcaNov 5- Gabriel MaslennikovHieromartyr · PriestNov 5
- AgathangelusMartyrNov 5
- Augustine and PaulinusVenerableNov 5