Leo

Saint Leo was bishop of the island of Samos in the ninth century and fell asleep in peace.

According to his synaxarion, he was simple, pious, humble and a lover of mankind, a defender of the Orthodox faith and tradition and a teacher of piety. In him the monastic image was joined with episcopal holiness. His commemoration was at first kept on 29 April, but today he is venerated by the local Church of Samos, whose bishop he is considered, on 26 April, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style). His veneration is local.