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Hierarch · 9th century

George the Confessor Bishop of Mytilene

Also known as George of Mytilene the Confessor

A monastic from his youth who became Bishop of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos and confessed the veneration of the holy icons, suffering persecution under the iconoclasts.

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