Nestor of Trimythous

Holy Hierarch Nestor of Trimythous was a bishop of the city of Trimythous in Cyprus in the fourth century, together with Saint Arcadius, with whom he is commemorated.

From the short Greek life it is known that the two hierarchs held the see of Trimythous, were good pastors and brought many pagans to Christ. They endured exile and hardship, worked many miracles and departed to the Lord in peace.

Their joint commemoration stands on 7 March in the Byzantine calendars, namely the Typikon of the Great Church of the ninth and tenth centuries, the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople of the tenth century, and the Menologion of Basil II. The Roman Martyrology places them on 4 March, and a late tradition from a seventeenth-⁠century Spanish Jesuit wrongly made them martyrs in Spain; that account rests on no early sources. Among the Slavs their memory appears from the twelfth century, in the calendar of the Ohrid Apostol and in the Prologues translated in Rus. No proper service is known; the Greek Menaia of today hold only a verse synaxarion.

The Azbyka page gives 20 March (7 March in the old style) and notes that Nestor is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.