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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Paracodes of Vienne

Bishop of Vienne

Bishop of Vienne in Gaul, venerated as a hieromartyr.

Feast
January 1old style January 14
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Paracodes of Vienne was bishop of the city of Vienne in Gaul and is honoured as a hieromartyr. The sources at hand do not preserve details of his life, of the time of his episcopate, or of the manner of his suffering.

His name is among those of the first bishops of Vienne, one of the oldest Churches of Gaul. He is regarded as a saint of the undivided Church.

Commemorated the same day January 1