Theodore of Tiberiopolis

Holy Hieromartyr Theodore of Tiberiopolis, a priest, is one of the sixteen martyrs of the monastic brotherhood at Tiberiopolis (now Strumica), put to death for Christ in 361, in the persecution of Julian the Apostate. Together with him received the crown of martyrdom the bishops Theodore and Timothy, the priests John, Nicephorus, Peter and Sergius, the deacons Basil and Thomas and the monks Daniel, Eusebius, Hierophilus, Comasius, Socrates, Chariton and Euthymasius.

The calendar page gives no details of each of them. It says that the local population kept their memory and that after 1913 the Greeks of Strumica carried the hand of the priest Peter to Kilkis, where it is kept in a church that bears his name. Their service was printed in 1741, 1830 and 1930, and in 1967 the sixteen were proclaimed patrons of Kilkis. They are commemorated on 11 December, according to the Greek tradition. Their names are not included in the present Menologion of the Russian Church.