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Venerable (Monastic) · 9th century

Plato of the Studion

Also known as Venerable Plato the Confessor · Plato of Sakkoudion · Plato of the Studium

Abbot and founder of the Sakkoudion monastery in Bithynia and uncle of Saint Theodore the Studite, he suffered imprisonment and persecution as a confessor for opposing the uncanonical marriage of Emperor Constantine VI.

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Notes

Uncle and spiritual father of St Theodore the Studite. Reposed c. 814.

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