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Saint

Theophanes

Archbishop of Cyprus

A hierarch who shepherded the Church of Cyprus, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
May 12old style May 25
Era
13th century
Place
Cyprus

Life

Saint Theophanes is called archbishop of Cyprus, though his name does not appear in the known lists of bishops.

His commemoration is found in Jerusalem codex 1096, of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, where he is called "our father among the saints, Theophanes, archbishop of Cyprus". No other details are known. He is commemorated on 12 May, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).

Commemorated the same day May 12