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Hierarch · 8th century

Saint John Bishop of Polybotum

Also known as John of Polybotum

A bishop of Phrygia who opposed Leo the Isaurian's iconoclasm and taught the Orthodox veneration of the icons.

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