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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Joseph the Studite

Archbishop of Thessalonica

Studite monk, brother of Saint Theodore the Studite and Archbishop of Thessalonica, who reposed in 836.

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Feast
January 26old style February 8
Reposed
8309th century
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Joseph the Studite was the brother of Saint Theodore the Studite. The two lived as monks at Sakkoudion in Bithynia under Saint Plato, and later at Studios. For his ascetic life he was chosen unanimously as Archbishop of Thessalonica.

He opposed the unlawful marriage of Emperor Constantine VI; he was tortured and banished to a barren island, from which Michael Rangabe set him free. Under Leo V the Armenian he suffered again for the veneration of the holy icons, since he refused to sign the iconoclast confession, and he was cast into a harsher prison. Michael the Stammerer released him together with other monks who held to the icons.

He reposed in 830 at the Studite monastery, where he had spent his last years. He wrote triodia for Holy Week, stichera for the Triodion, a canon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, and a sermon on the Exaltation of the Cross. He is commemorated on 26 January, and some calendars also keep 14 July. The date is that of the Orthodox Menaion (13 days later on the old calendar).

Commemorated the same day January 26