Saint
John the Wonderworker
Bishop of Polybotus
Bishop of Polybotus in Phrygia, honored as a wonderworker.
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- Feast
- December 4old style December 17
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Holy Hierarch John the Wonderworker was bishop of Polybotus in Phrygia and is honored as a wonderworker. According to the Roman Martyrology, he defended the veneration of holy icons against the view of the emperor Leo the Armenian, that is, in the early ninth century. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 4 December (Gregorian calendar), among the saints of the undivided Church.
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