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Hieromartyr

Philip

A hieromartyr commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
February 14old style February 27
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Philip the Hieromartyr was a bishop of Gaza and is commemorated on 14 February (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) together with Philemon, bishop of Gaza, as a hieromartyr. The English calendar remembers Philemon of Gaza in the tenth century.

The sources consulted give no other details about his life or how he received the crown of martyrdom.

Commemorated the same day February 14