Ikonios

Ikonios was Bishop of Gortyna in Crete and took part in the Third Ecumenical Council, at Ephesus, in the year 431, gathered against the heretical teaching of Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople. He is commemorated on 9 September as a saint honoured in Crete; no date of canonization is known.

He signed the acts of the Council together with three other Cretan bishops: Anderios of Chersonesos, Paul of Lampi and Zenovios of Knossos. According to the acts, he spoke twice at the Council, rejected the heresy of Nestorius and made an Orthodox confession of faith. His statements and those of the other three Cretan bishops are recorded in the acts. The Church also remembers him in the synaxis of all the saints of Gortyna and Arcadia in Crete, together with the Fathers of the Third Ecumenical Council.