Nicholas of Belgorod

Saint Nicholas of Belgorod was, according to Russian tradition, a bishop and a monk of the Kiev Caves Monastery. Almost nothing is known of him beyond his name.

Old sources count him among the saints of "the city of Kiev who lived in piety in the caves", and a book on the Russian saints places him in his cave. A Church historian (Archimandrite Leonid) lists him among the local saints of Kiev, as a hierarch from the monks of the Lavra, who died no earlier than 1116. The place of his relics is unknown, and it is not even clear whether he was buried at his see or in Kiev.

The see itself is uncertain: it may be Belgorod near Kiev or the later Belgorod, and the list of bishops there knows no Nicholas. Some scholars wonder whether the name is a form of Nicetas, Bishop of Belgorod. The saint is remembered in the calendar on 6 December, old style, on the day of Saint Nicholas of Myra.