Zacharias

Holy Hierarch Zacharias was the third bishop of Lyon, at the end of the second century and the beginning of the third.

Very little is known of his life. He escaped the persecution of the year 202 and succeeded Saint Irenaeus in the see of Lyon. He is recognised as a saint by both the Catholic and the Orthodox Church, and his commemoration is kept on 28 June. He is a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown by the sources.