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Saint Niketas the Confessor

Also known as Niketas of Apollonias

Archbishop of Apollonias in Bithynia who defended the veneration of the holy icons during the iconoclast persecution and suffered for the faith.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints