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Hierarch · 9th century
Saint Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer Bishop of Nicaea
Also known as Theophanes the Branded's brother
Brother of Theodore the Branded, educated in the Lavra of Saint Sabbas, who suffered for the holy icons and later became Bishop of Nicaea and a hymnographer.
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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints