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Hierarch · 5th century

Saint Celestine Pope of Rome

Also known as Celestine I

Pope of Rome (422-432), a learned defender of Orthodoxy who supported the condemnation of Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus and sent missionaries, including Palladius, to Ireland and Britain.

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