Agathocles was a bishop of Koroni, a town on the southwestern coast of the Peloponnese in the region of Messenia, Greece. He is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as a hierarch of the fifth century, and his memory is kept on September 9.
Surviving accounts of his life are brief. He is remembered chiefly as one of the fathers who took part in the Third Ecumenical Council, the assembly of bishops convened at Ephesus in 431. His commemoration on September 9 coincides with the Orthodox remembrance of that council, and he is also numbered among the saints of Messenia.
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The Third Ecumenical Council
The Third Ecumenical Council met at Ephesus in Asia Minor in 431 under the emperor Theodosius II. It condemned the teaching of Nestorius, who had distinguished the divine and human in Christ in a way the council judged to divide his single person, and it affirmed that the Virgin Mary is rightly called Theotokos, the one who bore God. Tradition reckons Agathocles of Koroni among the bishops who attended this council, placing his episcopate in the first half of the fifth century.
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Agathocles is numbered among the saints venerated in the region of Messenia.
Synaxis of the Saints of Messenia
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Saints connected to his life, mission, and place in Orthodox tradition.
