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Hierarch · 9th century

Saint Nikephoros the Confessor Patriarch of Constantinople

Also known as Nikephoros I of Constantinople

A court official who forsook the world for the monastic life and was raised to the throne of Constantinople; a staunch defender of the holy icons, he was driven from his see by the iconoclast emperor and died after long years in exile.

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Notes

Principal feast Jun 2; the translation of his relics is commemorated Mar 13.

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