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Saint

Peter of Nicaea

Hierarch of Nicaea, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
September 10old style September 23
Era
unknown
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Saint Peter of Nicaea, bishop of Nicaea, is commemorated on 23 September together with Saint Paul, 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.

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

Commemorated the same day September 10