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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Theodotus of Tomis

A martyr of Tomis from the early Christian centuries of Dobruja.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Era
4th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Theodotus of Tomis is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 5 July (new style), together with Marinus and Sedopha, as martyrs of Tomis, a city of Scythia (today Constanța, in Dobruja). The text of the martyrology gives no other details.

Theodotus is honoured among the martyrs of the first Christian centuries of Dobruja, as a saint of the undivided Church. The name Theodotus means, in Greek, “given by God”.

Commemorated the same day July 5