Timothy of Prusa

Saint Timothy, hieromartyr, was bishop of Prusa in Bithynia in Asia Minor in the fourth century. He received a martyr's death in the time of the emperor Julian the Apostate (360 to 363), according to the Greek source in the year 361. He is commemorated on 10 June.

As bishop, he strove to support the Christians and to protect the local Church from the various heresies of the time. When Julian began the persecution against Christians, Timothy was among the first bishops of the Church who resisted him. For this stand he was condemned to death and beheaded.

In Constantinople there was a church in memory of Saint Timothy, within the hospital called the one “in the Deuteron.” His troparion calls him a hieromartyr who bore fruit in the good soil of his heart, watered by showers of blood.