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Confessor · 8th century

George the Confessor Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia

Also known as George of Pisidia · George the Confessor

A monk made bishop of Antioch in Pisidia who, as a defender of the holy icons, refused to comply with the iconoclast council and was exiled, confessing the faith into old age.

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Notes

Iconodule confessor of the iconoclast era; exiled under Constantine V and again resisted iconoclasm under Leo V.

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