George of Nicomedia

Saint George of Nicomedia was metropolitan of Nicomedia in the ninth century, in the Church of Constantinople, a writer, preacher and hymnographer. The Church commemorates him on 29 December; in the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople his memory is entered under 29, 30 and 31 December.

The year and place of his birth are not known. He was a contemporary and friend of Patriarch Photius of Constantinople, with whom he corresponded. He was deacon and chartophylax of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (according to the Serbian source, its icon painter). In the year 860 he was consecrated bishop. Then he was driven from his see during the persecution of Photius.

Of George's many homilies, whose number reaches one hundred and seventy, only nine have been published, in volume one hundred of the Greek Patrology. Most of them were written for feasts of the Mother of God. George is one of the authors of the liturgical texts for the feast of the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple. Neither the year nor the place of his death is known.