Saint
Nicholas I of Thessaloniki
Bishop of Thessaloniki
A hierarch of Thessaloniki, commemorated as a saint in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- December 29old style January 11
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Holy Hierarch Nicholas I of Thessaloniki was an archbishop of Thessalonica, placed by the episcopal chronologies in the second half of the second century, around the year 160. The sources preserve no details of his life.
His name appears in the Synaxarion of Constantinople on 29 November, without a biography, in a formula saying that our venerable father Nicholas, archbishop of Thessalonica, was perfected in peace. The chronology proposed by Metropolitan Anthimos of Amasia dates his episcopate to the year 160, with no further detail.
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