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Venerable (Monastic) · 9th century

Venerable Niketas the Confessor

Also known as Nicetas the Confessor · Niketas of Medikion · Nicetas of Medikion

A 9th-century abbot of the Medikion monastery in Bithynia who suffered persecution and exile as a confessor for the veneration of the holy icons during the second iconoclast period. He reposed in 824.

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Notes

Defender of the holy icons during the iconoclast controversy.

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