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Hierarch · 7th century

Isidore of Seville

Also known as Saint Isidore Bishop of Seville

Orphaned young and from a family of saints, he became Archbishop of Seville in Visigothic Spain, helped lead the conversion of the Visigoths from Arianism to Orthodoxy, and was a renowned scholar and encyclopedist.

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Pre-schism Western saint. Often dated to 636.

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