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Hierarch · 5th century

Saint Maruthas Bishop of Martyropolis

Also known as Maruthas of Tagrit · Maruthas of Mesopotamia

Bishop of Tagrit (Martyropolis) on the Byzantine-Persian frontier, skilled in medicine, who took part in the Second Ecumenical Council and gathered the relics of the Persian martyrs, for which his city was named Martyropolis. He reposed around 422.

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Notes

Commemorated with the Persian Martyrs whose relics he gathered at Martyropolis.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Feb 16