Paul of Nicaea

Saint Paul of Nicaea, a bishop of Nicaea, is commemorated on 23 September with Saint Peter, also a bishop of Nicaea. Peter defended the Orthodox faith against the iconoclasts in the time of the emperor Leo (813-820) and suffered for it; he died no earlier than the year 823. Four letters of Saint Theodore the Studite to Peter are known, written between 816 and 823.

Of the life of Paul, Bishop of Nicaea, no reports survive. His name appears for the first time in the so-⁠called Petrine Greek Prologue of the eleventh century.

Saint Paul is commemorated on 23 September, in the new style.